THE MIGHTIEST NIMROD OF MODERN TIMES. 353 



" When Soga had made a cut about two and a half feet long 

 in its side the limbs of the rhinoceros began to move spasmodicall}^, 

 and it suddenly raised its head and brought it down again with a 

 thump on the ground. 



" From that moment it commenced to struggle frantically, and 

 was evidently fast regaining consciousness. I shouted to Soga to 

 try to stab it in the heart before it got on its legs ; but as he only 

 made a very feeble attempt to do so, I ran up, and snatching the 

 assegai from him, endeavored to stab the struggling animal to death 

 myself. But it was now fast regaining strength, and with every 

 effort to rise it threw up its head and brought it down on the ground 

 again with a thump. 



" I managed to plunge the heavy assegai through the cut in its 

 skin and deep into the side, but with a sudden, spasmodic move- 

 ment it broke the shaft in two leaving a short piece attached to the 

 blade sticking in its body. 



REELED ABOUT LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN. 



" In another moment it was standing on its legs, but kept reel- 

 ing about like a drunken man." 



Selous' loaded gun, when he secured it, missed fire. While he 

 was still trying to bring the other into action the rhino, he says, 

 " started off in a straight line, putting on more pace at every step, 

 and, although we ran as hard as we could, we never overtook it." 



Among the most enthusiastic of his admirers has always been 

 Colonel Roosevelt himself, the former President's regard having 

 led him to extend to Mr. Selous the invitation for the hunting which 

 has brought his unerring eye again into the field of African game. 



Most of us know what Haggard has had to say, in a variety 

 of volumes, regarding the fictitious Ouatermain, but few have had 

 the opportunity to read what Colonel Roosevelt thinks of the man 

 who is now trudging with him in the deep shadows of the African 

 forests. 



What Colonel Roosevelt wrote, in encomium of him as the 

 author of his " African Nature Notes," and generously dated " The 

 White House, May 2^, 1907," was in reality an extensive review of 



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