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of the former, and in the shoulder of the latter, which not 

 seldom prove so, yet it is utterly impossible to predicate 

 as to when it will and when it will not. 



As an instance of this, I may mention the case of a 

 rhinoceros at which three shots were fired, all from the 

 same angle, and all of which could have been outwardly 

 covered by a crown-piece, the two first of which had no 

 effect whatever, while the third killed it dead ; and it all 

 tends to prove that, as it is impossible under any circum- 

 stances to make sure of killing with one shot, resort must 

 therefore be had to heavy missiles, which will sicken and 

 weaken the animal, and will produce the same effect in an 

 hour that smaller ones would take a week to accomplish. 



On one occasion I happened to witness, and indeed to 

 take an active part in, the capture of a young rhinoceros 

 calf of the species I have already mentioned by the native 

 name of kulumane, and as it afforded us an unusually 

 good opportunity of studying the habits and characteristics 

 of this hitherto unrecognised species, it is worth while to 

 give an account of it, although, unfortunately, the little 

 animal did not exist very long in captivity, dying a few 

 days after we had caught it. 



Its mother had been shot by one of the hunters on the 

 previous day, and, true to the instinct so generally dis- 

 played in similar cases by the young of all rhinoceroses, it 

 remained the whole night by the dead body, and when we 

 visited the place next morning we found it still there. 

 We had, in anticipation of its being so, provided ourselves 

 with a number of strong rheims, or thongs cut from the 

 hide of a buffalo, and at once set to work to catch it ; and 

 as the thicket in which its mother lay enabled us to 



