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into tear. Tossing their stumpy-horned heads, and 

 twisting their tails into tight knots, they ambled briskly 

 from side to side, and were ten minutes in getting to a 

 distance of a hundred yards. Then our shenzi guide 

 mentioned that there were other rhinos close by. and 

 we walked off to inspect them. In three hundred yards 

 we came on them, a cow and a well-o^rown calf. Sixty 

 yards from them was an ant-hill with little trees on it. 

 From this we looked at them until some sound or other 

 must have made them uneasy, for up they got. The 

 young one seemed to have rather keener suspicions, 

 although no more sense, than its mother, and after a 

 while grew so restless that it persuaded the cow to go 

 off witli it. But the still air gave no hint of our where- 

 abouts, and they walked straight toward us. 1 did not 

 wish to have to shoot one. and so when they were 

 within thirty yards we raised a shout and away they 

 cantered, heads tossintr and tails twistino-. 



Three hours later we saw another cow and calf By 

 this time it was half-past three in the afternoon, and the 

 two animals had risen from their noonday rest and were 

 grazing busily, the great clumsy heads sweeping the 

 orround. As I watched them forty yards off. it was 

 some time before the cow raised her head hiorh enouorli 

 for me to see that her horns were not good. Then they 

 became suspicious, and the cow stood motionless for 

 several minutes, her head held low. We moved quietly 

 back, and at last they either dimly saw us. or heard us, 



I and stood looking toward us. their big ears cocked 

 forward. At this moment we stumbled on a rhino 

 skull, bleached, but in such good preservation that we 

 I knew Heller would like it ; and we loaded it on the 

 porters that had followed us. All the time we were 

 ) thus engaged the two rhinos, only a hundred yards off, 



