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])nllets penetrating well, and not splitting into frag- 

 ments, but seeming to cause a rending shock. 



I met with much more difficulty in trying to kill the 

 young one I needed. I walked and trotted a mile after 

 the herd. The old ones showed little alarm, standing 

 again and again to look at me. Finally T shot one of 

 the two young ones, at four hundred and ten long paces, 

 while a cow stood much nearer, and the bull only three 

 hundred yards off'. 15ut this was not all. The four 

 survivors did not leave CAen after such an experience, 

 but stayed in the plain, not far off, for several hours, 

 and thereby gave Kermit a chance to do something 

 much better worth while than shooting them. His 

 shoulder was sore, and he did not wish to use a rifle, 

 and so was devoting himself to his camera, which one 

 of his men always carried. With this, after the exercise 

 of much patience, he finally managed to take a number 

 of pictures of the giraffe, getting within fifty yards of 

 the bull. 



Nor were the giraffes the only animals that showed a 

 tameness bordering on stupidity. Soon afterward we 

 made out three rhino, a mile away. They were out in 

 the bare plain, alternately grazing and enjoying a noon- 

 tide rest ; the bull by himself, the cow with her calf a 

 quarter of a mile off. There was not a scrap of cover, 

 but we walked up wind to within a hundred and fifty 

 yards of the bull. Even then he did not seem to see us, 

 but the tick-birds, which were clinging to his back and 

 sides, gave the alarm, and he trotted to and fro, un- 

 certain as to the cause of the disturbance. If Heller 

 had not had his hands full with the giraffes I might 

 have shot the bull rhino ; but his horn and bulk of body, 

 though fair, were not remarkable, and I did not molest 

 him He went toward the cow, which left lier calf and 



