342 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
peared around a curve on a run, and I was afraid I had 
lost him. The day broke, and I had not had a wink of 
sleep. Except for a short time after my shots, there had 
not been an instant but what some beast could be seen 
from my zareba. I went out with my boys to track the 
rhinoceros I had wounded, and found him dead, half a 
mile off. His front horn measured twenty-four inches 
around the curve. But the fun was not yet finished, for on 
our way back to camp we started a rhinoceros out of the 
bushes close to us. I fired quickly, and hit him too far back. 
With but a second’s hesitation, he charged us like a steam- 
engine, and we had just time to dodge behind bushes. 
He kept on in a straight line for fifty yards and stopped, 
when I put a bullet into him which put an end to his 
sufferings. 
CHARGED BY AN ELEPHANT. 
After tramping about one afternoon in search of ele- 
phants, Dodson and I noticed one of the huge beasts 
walking leisurely across a broad grassy plain, and started 
onarun through the bushes to head him off. We had 
made a proper estimate of the time it would take for the 
elephant to: reach’-the bushes onthe ‘other side of the 
opening, so that the beast and ourselves came together at 
the’same* time. As PE fired at theselephant sitemple a welt 
sure that the animal was mine; but, although he dropped 
on his knees, the next second he was on his feet, and off 
again at a quick pace through the bushes. We followed 
his trail for some time along a narrow path, but we did 
not have much apprehension of his charging us on sight, 
as he had appeared so timid when first shot at. But no 
one ever knows just how an elephant will act. 
The longer one hunts these dangerous beasts, the more 
respect will one have for them, the keener will be the 
