BLACK-HEADED HERONS (-1KD1-:.! M/;r..-lOC/-PH.l L.-l. VIG. Childr.). 



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Rhinoceros'hunting 



MANY sportsmen of to-day have no idea what 

 numbers of rhinoceroses there used to be in 

 Germany in those distant epochs when the cave-dweller 

 waged war with his primitive weapons against all the 

 mighty animals of old a war that came in the course 

 of the centuries to take the shape of our modern sport. 



The visitor to the zoological gardens, who knows 

 nothing of " big game," finds it hard perhaps to think 

 of the great unwieldy "rhino" in this capacity. Yet I 

 am continually being asked to tell about other experiences 

 of my rhinoceros-hunting. I have given some already 

 in /[7//Z Flashlight and Rifle. Let me, then, devote 

 this chapter to an account of some expeditions after the 

 two-horned African rhinoceros one of the most interesting, 

 powerful, and dangerous beasts still living. 



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