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MANIS. 



irery beautiful manner. Its tail is broad, and likewise covered 

 with scales ; on being disturbed it rolls itself into a ball. The 

 manis is met with throughout the interior of South Africa, but it is 

 rare and very seldom seen. 



Having taken some coffee, I rode out unattended, with my rifle, 

 and before proceeding far I fell in with a huge white rhinoceros 

 with a large calf, standing in a thorny grove. Getting my wind, 

 she set off" at top speed through thick thorny bushes, the calf, as 

 is invariably the case, taking the lead, and the mother guiding its 

 course, generally about three feet in length, against its ribs. My 

 hcrse shied very much at first, alarmed at the strange appearance 

 of " Chuckuroo," but by a sharp application of spur and jambok 

 I prevailed upon him to follow, and presently, the ground im- 

 proving, I got alongside, and, firing at the gallop, sent a bullet 

 through her shoulder. She continued her pace with blood stream- 

 ing from the wound, and very soon reached an impracticable 

 thorny jungle, where I could not follow, and instantly lost her. 

 In half an hour I fell in with a second rhinoceros, being an old 

 bull of the white variety. Dismounting, I crept within twenty 

 yat 3s, and saluted him with both barrels in the shoulder, upon 

 which he made off", uttering a loud blowing noise, and upsetting 

 every thing that obstructed his progress. 



Shortly after this I found myself on the bauks of the stream 

 oeside which my wagons were outspanned. Following along its 

 margin, I presently beheld a bull of the borele, or black rhinoceros, 

 standing within a hundred yards of me. Dismounting from my 

 horse, I secured hiiu to a tree, and then stalked within twenty 



