Big Game Shooting 



were sitting in, a very flimsy thorn tree, and were 

 hanging on by their eyelids. The rhino, un- 

 fortunately for them, couldn't see the tree, and by 

 a great mistake hit it with a leg in passing, and 

 must have been more than horrified to find five 

 fine fat porters come hurtling past his ears, having 

 been shot out like so much rotten fruit. No one 

 was damaged, and I am sure the rhino must have 

 been more frightened than any one. 



It is quite true that on certain occasions they 

 are really nasty, and do charge in a most vindic- 

 tive way. A great friend of mine had the mis- 

 fortune to lose his arm thereby. Doctor Kolb 

 lost his life in a similar manner, and I know of 

 a case in which a poor old native woman was 

 charged without provocation and was killed. I 

 myself was charged once. I met a rhino running 

 away from the caravan, and thought he was 

 doing a charge. I fired at fifty yards, and stupidly 

 hit him too far back. That was all he wanted. 

 He was hurt, and charged the flash, having dis- 

 covered where I was. I found I had only one 

 cartridge left with me, so had to let him get to 

 fourteen yards to make a " cert " of him through 

 the neck. 



A cow rhino with a young one is, of course, 

 quite different. She is a real brute. 



Again on Laikipia plateau, I was being taken 

 by some Wandorobo (excellent local hunters) 

 to a place for eland. I appeared carefully and 



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