2 1 8 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



after her. I had changed the 8 bore for my own 

 *577. The youngster galloped on straight ahead. It 

 took me over half an hour to come up with the 

 rhinoceros and to kill her. I then had to walk home, 

 for " Elgin " was not recovered till late in the after- 

 noon. When I reached camp I found W. had speared 

 the juvenile ! Seeing the animal coming past 

 him and having no gun handy, for a mere spree he 

 laid in. His horse at first objected to the uncouth 

 beast, especially to its squealing, but W. was a 

 determined rider and getting alongside drove the 

 spear in behind the shoulder not jobbing, but 

 prodding and he was astonished at the ease with 

 which the blade penetrated. Just then the rhinoceros 

 uttered such diabolical noises that caused the mare to 

 rear and become unmanageable. W. had to let go the 

 spear and so become a helpless spectator. The antics 

 of the stricken rhinoceros he declared were most 

 grotesque ; he capered, he shook himself, he sprang 

 from side to side, roaring blue murder the whole 

 while ; the shaft of the spear swaying about like the 

 arms of a windmill, and W. was thinking of riding 

 back for a rifle to put the poor beast out of pain, 

 when the pachyderm went an awful crusher on to its 

 wounded side and drove the spear home till it pro- 

 truded out of the chest ; a few more squeals and gasps, 

 then its spirit fled. It had been tripped up by a 

 creeper, and W. could say, what I believe no other 

 man could boast, that he had fairly ridden down and 

 speared a rhinoceros. When the spear was extracted 

 we found the shaft, though not broken, splintered 

 and useless, so we had to give up all idea of hog-hunt- 

 ing for the present. Before the next season came round 



