Big Game Shooting 



saw them, and I their traces, but I could never 

 set eyes on the beasts themselves. Their times 

 of feeding differ according to the heat or cold of 

 the various districts they are found in. 



The first time I ever shot one in East Africa 

 I thought I had got quite close enough, sixty 

 yards, but that did not please my Masai orderly, 

 who seized me by the arm and made me go to 

 twenty-five yards before he was satisfied. I did 

 not like it one little bit, but I found myself under 

 his orders and so had to do it. Nothing happened, 

 of course, except the death of the rhino, and my 

 terror of them disappeared from that date, al- 

 though they are awkward-looking at times. 



They are found almost all over East Africa, 

 though they are not so numerous near the dwell- 

 ings of men as they used to be. From Kiu to 

 Kilimanjaro, on the Tana River, and up north 

 on the Guaso Nyiro are their favourite localities 

 apparently, and they are found round Lake 

 Natron, on the Laikipia plateau, up to Lake 

 Baringo, Kitui, and all down the German 

 boundary. 



A good average front horn is twenty-eight 

 inches. 



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