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bank, while it sealed the fate of the leader, turned 

 the rest back again, and this persecution was re- 

 peated until they became fairly stupified. On one 

 occasion they attempted to retrieve the day by a 

 headlong charge from several quarters at the same 

 moment, and we were often so surrounded by small 

 detachments, that it appeared doubtful which party 

 would be obliged to quit the field. The sound of 

 our voices, however, uniformly turned the scale, and 

 declared man the victor. Among several hundred 

 females and calves, we could find but one bull ; and, 

 as we were tracking him on horseback through a 

 heavy forest, by his life-blood welling from fifty 

 wounds, a savage rhinoceros dashed out of a bush 

 into the very middle of our party, overthrowing 

 several, but injuring none. Andries, though he 

 was ever thrusting upon us his code of sage laws 

 regarding elephant hunting, was always the first to 

 infringe it ; and wantonly firing at a peaceably dis- 

 posed rhinoceros, while we were upon the hot trail 

 of elephants in the early part of the day, his horse 

 got away, and he was knocked over ; the damage 

 sustained by the hinder part of his leathern trowsers, 

 which were rent by the animal's horn, proving how 

 nearly we had been bereft, for ever, of his valuable 

 services. 



Both our vehicles were now so crammed with 

 ,vpo//a, that, being unable to find room for any more 

 ivory, we were reluctantly compelled to leave the 

 ground strewed with that valuable commodity. 

 Great difficulty was experienced in getting our 



