RHINOCEROS SHOOTING. Ill 



fifteen minutes he seemed dead, but he again became 

 very troublesome during the operation of skinning, 

 twisting his body in all manner of ways. This serpent 

 measured fourteen feet. 



A.t night no game visited the water, being scared by 

 the strong smell of the carrion. Lions, however, were • 

 so numerous that we deemed it safe to shift a position 

 we had taken down the glen, for they trotted past with- 

 in twenty yards of us, growling fearfully. We fired 

 off the big gun to scare them for the moment while 

 we shifted to our baggage at the fountain head, where 

 we instantly lighted a large fire. The lions, for a short 

 time after this, kept quiet, when they again returned, 

 and the fire being low, they soon commenced upon the 

 buffalo the natives had left within fifty yards of us, and 

 before morning two of them came up and looked into 

 our bothy, when Boxer giving a sharp bark, and I sud- 

 denly awaking and popping up my head, they bound- 

 ed off. 



In the evening of the 28th I shot an old bull koo- 

 doo. At night I watched the water near my camp 

 with Kleinboy. After a long time had elapsed, an 

 enormous old bull muchocho or white rhinoceros came 

 slowly on, and commenced drinking within fifteen yards 

 of us, and next minute a large herd of zebras and blue 

 wildebeest. It was long before the muchocho would 

 turn his side ; when he did, we fired together, and 

 away he went with zebras and wildebeests concealed 

 in a cloud of dus^ Next came an old bull borele ; we 

 fired together, and he made off, blowing loudly, after 

 charging round and round, seeking some object on which 

 to wreak his vengeance. Next came another borele, 

 and he got two bullets into his person. The fourth that 

 came was another old bull muchocho ; he ran forty 



