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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



AIT El, AND. 



yards of *he huge beast, under cover of a large, strong biish. 

 Borele, hearing me advance, came on to see what it was, and 

 suddenly protruded his horny nose within twenty yards of me. 

 Knowing well that a front shot would not prove deadly, I sprang 

 to my feet and ran behind the bush. Upon this the villain 

 charged, blowing loudly, and chased me round the bush. Had 

 his activity been equal to his ugliness, my wanderings would 

 have terminated here, but by my superior agility I had the ad- 

 vantage in the turn. After standing a short time eyeing me 

 through the bush, he got a whiff of my wind,- which at once 

 alarmed him. Uttering a blowing noise, and erecting his insig- 

 nificant yet saucy-looking tail, he wheeled about, leaving me 

 master of the field, when I sent a bullet through his ribs to teach 

 him manners. 



Finding that rhinoceroses were abundant in the vicinity, I re 

 solved to halt a day for the purpose of hunting, and after an earir 

 breakfast on the 6th I rode southeast with the two Baquaines 



