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as sharp as a lancet. With this knife he on one occasion 

 cut a charging boar clean through the spine and 

 shoulder right down into the vitals. But a more terrific 

 stroke even than that was one which he dealt to a 

 rhinoceros when he was among the Hamran sword- 

 hunters of the Soudan. He thus tells the story in 

 "Wild Beasts and their Ways": 



" We had not advanced far through the tolerably open 

 jungle when we arrived at the foot of a rocky hill. 

 There were many large boulders lying about, when 

 suddenly one of my Arabs touched my arm, and 

 directed my attention to an object that appeared to be 

 a rock ; almost at the same moment a rhinoceros rose 

 quickly from the ground, and had evidently obtained 

 our wind. I made a good shot with a No. 10 rifle 

 through the shoulder, and after turning twice round, and 

 uttering a peculiar squeaking sound like the bellows 

 arrangement of a crying doll, it fell to the ground and 

 died. We now observed a fine young animal which was 

 standing upon the opposite side of the mother, and I 

 suggested to my famous Hamran hunters that we should 

 call up the camels and endeavour to secure the calf with 

 our good supply of ropes. 



This was quite opposed to their ideas, as the young 

 one was sufficiently advanced to boast of a pair of small 

 horns, which the Arabs declared to be too formidable to 

 warrant an attempt at capture. I thought otherwise, 

 therefore I arranged that we should make a trial. The 

 camels were brought, and the ropes arranged. Nooses 

 were prepared, and I suggested that we should attempt 

 the young one, and then secure its legs. My Arabs 



