Alaina Urquhart

So after spending a week waiting on his orders, Patterson finally received a letter that told him he was going to go travel about 150 miles inland to a region called Savo, which is a combo word meaning place of slaughter.

Don't go there, baby.

I said, whoa.

Why would you name it that?

Because apparently there had been so many wars and like battles and things that had happened on this land.

So he was going to go there to take command of a crew that was going to build a large railroad bridge over the Savo River.

Like much of Kenya at this time, Sava was really dry.

It was really arid.

There was rivers and streams cutting through various sections of it.

And in addition to the large population of Kenyans living in the area, it also was home to a very diverse population of wildlife.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah, this was bush elephants, giraffes.

buffalo hyena jackal rhinoceroses rhinoceri no rhinoceros i think it might be rhinoceroses is it rhinoceros i think it is rhinoceros you do i don't know wow i'm gonna look it up though you should brian not smarter let's get smart i like getting smarter let's get smarter my brain is plural rhinocero i did not spell plural um it's okay

The plural is either rhinoceroses or rhinoceros.

I like rhinoceros better.

It kind of feels nice.

It does.

It's got a nice mouth feel.

Rolls off the tongue.

I would lay down my life for elephants.