So Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



entered a tope of trees. We rushed round and met 

 it face to face and killed it at the first discharge ; the 

 beast was large and had a good horn, but the base had 

 got injured, as under the root there were hundreds of 

 maggots. The stench from it was awful. 



The next day we first wounded and lost a rhino- 

 ceros. After that came upon one lying down in a 

 running stream and had no difficulty in bagging it. 

 I then knocked over another rhinoceros, but lost it. 

 Our servants in moving camp also came across two 

 rhinoceros and a wild mucknah elephant. 



April 24th. To-day the heat was awful ; there was 

 not a cloud in the sky. About ten we hit off a trail 

 and my mahout did a very clever bit of tracking. All 

 these rhinoceros feed in circles, so the task of hunting 

 them up to their lair is a tedious one. J. got dis- 

 gusted and took refuge under the only tree near. I 

 went on, and in about half an hour came upon one 

 lying down in a patch of long grass, and as it jumped 

 up I killed it easily. We then went on for a mile or 

 two and came to a heavy belt of jungle, and out of 

 this ran a cow with a calf. We were anxious to catch 

 the little one, but J. unfortunately wounded it and it 

 had to be killed. As the mother's udder was full of 

 milk, our men filled two bottles with it, and said it was 

 very good. I tasted it out of curiosity. It was very 

 like. I should say, to a woman's nourishment in the first 

 stage of suckling watery and sweet. Going towards 

 camp, I saw a rhinoceros lying down at the bottom 

 of a nullah, partially covered over with long grass, 

 and apparently with its feet raised in the air. I 

 thought it was a dead one, and called out, " Here is 

 one of our wounded rhinoceros, dead ! " No sooner 



