5© HUNTING TRIPS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA. 



After my men and I had finished laughing, I saw the stern of the rhino disappearing 

 in the bush, the young one still keeping with her. Grabbing the "303 again, I followed 

 hard, as I knew she could not go very far with the wounds she had received, for they 

 seemed to have gone about the right place. To make a long story short, this game 

 went on for some time, but at last she dropped, and I was able to rest after one of 

 the hardest runs I have ever had. What had happened was this, I think. The first 

 bullet had paralysed her nervous system, the shock preventing her feeling the 

 subsequent wounds, for most of them had gone into her shoulder and the base of her 

 neck. I have seen the same thing happen on several occasions to antelopes, for at 

 times it is marvellous the wounds that animals can carry off. 



The rhino seems to be feared by the natives of this country more than any other 

 animal. He certainly looks a bad-tempered beast, and his appearance is against him, 

 for he generally has a fierce look about him when disturbed, and behaves in a fussy 

 manner when he is startled. He has a habit, too, of breaking up his dung with 

 his horns and feet, and the natives say that this is a sign that he is fierce and 

 ill-tempered. 



I think they are more harmless beasts to tackle than an elephant, buffalo) 

 lion, or leopard ; and as a rule they are very easily killed with modern weapons, for 

 one or two small-bore bullets generally prove quite sufficient. That they sometimes 

 charge when unwounded is a fact, for my friend Capt. C. H. Stigand was badly hurt 

 by one of these animals which he came on in some long grass. On this occasion 

 there were two of them, and the male attacked my friend and knocked him down, 

 giving him a very dangerous wound in the chest. The rhino left him, and returned 

 two or three times, before it disappeared for good. There is no saying what an 

 animal will do under given circumstances, as animals differ in their temperaments 

 almost as much as human beings. But to get back to my own rhino. When I 

 wanted to photograph it, I found the man whose work it was to carry the camera had 

 left it in camp, so he had the pleasure of a ten-miles' run for it. As I knew it would 

 be quite four hours before he could cover the twenty miles, I got the men to make me 

 a shelter of branches and leaves, and lay down to have a sleep. I suppose I had 

 restfed about five hours when the men woke me up and said they heard shouting 

 in the distance. Soon after this we saw an animal running in our direction, and when 

 it got closer we made out a good roan bull coming towards us. I missed it the first 

 shot with the 303, but another attempt was more successful, for I hit it near the spine 

 and it came down. Before I could get close it recovered itself and struggled on for 

 about two hundred yards, when it lay down in a small hollow. 



As the men with the camera had come up, for they had driven the roan towards 



