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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 

 RHINOCEROS. 



The Black Umfolosi, . . p. 72 

 Sufferings from thirst, . . .73 

 Shooting an antelope, . . .74 

 The camp charged by a rhinoceros, 75, 76 

 Tracking its spoor Firing a volley 

 Its cunning, . . . .77 



Its death, 83 



Number of species in Africa, . . 83 

 Description of, ... 84-86 



Waterholes, 89 



Quantity and variety of game which 



frequent them, . . .87, 88 

 Watching them at night, . . 89 

 A troop of lions during a thunder- 

 storm, 90 



Watching a waterhole for two nights 



and a day, . . . .90 



Large bag, . . . . .91 

 The duiker antelope, . . .92 

 A herd of koodoos, . . .93 

 Stalking a rhinoceros by moonlight, 94 

 An unpleasant predicament, . . 95 

 Sleeping in a tree, . . .96 



A black rhinoceros, . . .97 

 The ititihoya plover, . . .98 

 A herd of rhinoceros, . . .99 

 Causes of missing, . . . 100 



Finishing off a wounded one, . 101 



Vegetable caves, . . . .102 



The lair of an upetyane, . . p. 103 

 An excited animal, . . . 104 



A herd of wild pigs, . . . 105 

 The leopard's victim, . . .106 

 Risking a long shot, . . .107 

 Hyenas, ..... 108 



A large herd of buffalo, . . 109 



A stratagem, . . . .110 



The hardening of bullets, . .111 

 Effects of soft and hard bullets, 112-114 

 The best bore for guns, . . 115, 116 

 Capturing a young rhinoceros, 117-119 

 Habitat of the different species, 120, 121 

 My first introduction to a kulu- 



mane, ..... 122 



Forming an ambuscade, . .123 



A broken-legged cow, . . .124 

 The habitat of R. Keitloa, . .125 

 Shooting one with a single ball, . 126 

 General habits of the rhinoceros, . 127 

 Best place at which to aim, . .128 

 Savageness of R. bicornis, . .129 

 A hunter killed, . . . .130 

 A black rhinoceros spares a baby, . 131 

 Two thousand men put to flight by 



one, 132 



An African scene, . . .133 



Personal adventure with one, . 134 



An ill-famed spot, . . . .135 



CHAPTER III. 



ELAND. 



Return of a hunter, . . . 138 

 The honey-bird, . . . .139 

 The honey-hunter, . . . 140 



A troop of elands, . . . .141 

 A trying race Running down an 



eland, 142 



An old blue bull, . . . .143 

 Species of eland, . . . .145 

 The stripi-d variety, . . . 146 

 A great herd, .... 147 



An unexpected shot, . . .148 

 Tribute to native hunters, . .149 

 A disputed buffalo, . . 150, 151 

 How to make a waterproof hut, 152, 153 



Travellers' mats, . . . 154, 155 

 On the march, .... 156 

 The sassabi, . . . .157 

 Quantity of game, . . . .158 

 A long shot, . . . .159 

 A beautiful picture, . . .160 

 My last bullet, . . . .161 

 A pleasant surprise, . . .162 

 Extermination of the eland, . . 163 

 Their breeding season, . . .164 

 A gallop after a young cow, . .165 

 The gnu break back, . . .166 

 An ugly fall Pace of an eland, 167, 168 

 Swaziland, 169 



