-^ Rhinoceroses 



In common with the best-known Eno'lish authorities, 

 Mr. F. C. Selous, Mr. F. G. Jackson, and others, I have 

 found the rhinoceros always nervous, easily excited, and 

 very capricious in his ways and hard to reckon on. He 

 is particularly nervous when alone. In a rhinoceros-hunt, 

 you never know what will happen next. As an illustration 

 of this. I may describe my experiences one day in 



THE COW RHINOCKROS. ITS HORN WAS MORE THAN A YARD IN LKNCTH 



November 1903, on my fourth and last expedition, when 

 I succeeded in taking an excellent photograph of two 

 rhinoceroses. 



I had been trying all the morning to get a photograph 

 of a herd of giraffes, but they were so shy I had had no 

 luck. Tired and parched, I was making my way back to 

 the camp, which was still about four hours' march away, 

 when the two rhinoceroses came in sight, to my surprise 



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