On the whole,
I think that my best course is to wait, and to
prepare for some expedition which shall be
more deliberate and better thought out than
the last. As a first step I have been to Castleton
and obtained a few essentials—a large acety-
lene lantern for one thing, and a good double-
barrelled sporting rifle for another. The latter
I have hired, but I have bought a dozen heavy
game cartridges, which would bring down a
rhinoceros.

Chapter 4