-^ Rhinoceroses 



shoutinj^" and sing-ing so as to prevent any such encounter 

 happening to us again. 



The following morning we found the rhinoc(*ros — a 

 big", powerful bull — lying dead sixty paces or so from 

 the spot where I had shot him. The lead-tipped steel 

 bullet had penetrated his shoulder, and was to be found on 

 the other side under the skin. 



Nocturnal meetings with rhinoceroses are not always 



THE RHINOCEROSES GOT UP AND CAME FOR ME FULL TILT 



so fortunate in their results — -sometimes they are most 

 dangerous in these circumstances. As a general rule, 

 however, when a rhinoceros gets to know of the vicinity 

 of a man at nio^ht time he L!"ives him a wide berth. This 

 was to be my own experience on other occasions. 



In the upper regions of the watershed between the 

 Masai country and Victoria Nyanza I had numerous 



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