With Flashli-iit and Rifle ^ 



experience of a hurricane on the high seas which lasted 

 nearly two days. " Force of wine! " and " Ship pitched 

 heavily " were recorded in the ship's log : the 6, coo-ton 

 vessel leant over to the side at an angle of 45°. 



However, the young animal stood the vo\age well in 

 spite of ever\ thing, and at 1 lamburg Herr Hagenbeck 

 had, in the most friendly way, done everything to ensure 

 our speedy transit to l^erlin — a service for which 1 am 

 most grateful. 



So at last we are able to study this very interesting 

 animal in cai)ti\it\-, and to note its growth and develop- 

 ment. It differs from its clums) -looking Indian cousin in 

 its activity, in the length of its two horns, and also in its 

 relati\'e good kx^ks ! 



1 got hold of two other young rhinoceroses later, 

 l)ut I was not so successful in rearing them as I was 

 in this instance. 



In one case I found the tracks ot a cow rhinoceros 

 Tcr \()ung at a drinking- place;. Accompanied tor 

 ncc bv my taxidermist, Orgeich, I undertook their i)ur- 

 suit, which was to prove very long and ver\ ditlicult. o\er 

 stony and hilly ground. As I got near her, she; took to 

 tli'du, t'iven the alarm by rhinoceros-birds. k'rom the hill 

 on which I was 1 could see her and her young one making 

 off over th(- velt. On we went again, and presently 

 we espied h(;r once more, in the; middle ol a large meadow 

 of grass with a few trees on it here and tlu're. .She was 

 standing still under an acacia, eviclentU' disciuieled b\- our 

 pursuit. I shot at her from a distance ot about one 

 hundred paces. My bullet passed through a lliick i)ranch 



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