CAMEL KILLED BY A RHINOCEROS. 361 
second time. But still she managed to stagger to her feet 
and reach the camel. She had just enough strength left to 
plunge her horns into the camel’s belly and then drop 
to the ground dead. The young rhinoceros would not 
quit its dead mother’s side for some moments, and, as I did 
not wish to kill it, I was obliged to fire several times over 
its head to frighten it away. 
While we stopped to cut the throat of the camel which 
had been gored, and which was, of course, dying, some of 
my boys, who had been far behind with the cattle and 
sheep, came up and gave me their excuse for lagging. 
They said they had had to halt three times on account of 
a singular rhino, which would stop directly in front of 
them, puffing and stamping, 
them to come up, so that he could charge them at close 
and apparently waiting for 
quarters. My boys did not fire, but waited each time till 
the animal disappeared. The rhino would only describe 
a short ellipse, however, as he ran through the bushes, 
and would appear again to repeat his first performance. 
Thus three times within half an hour had the caravan 
been molested by bullying rhinoceroses. 
