ADVENTURES WITH LIONS AND A RHINO 



it to be dead, ran up to it most unwisely, and as 

 rhinos often do, even in their death agonies, on 

 smelling him it jumped up and charged him, knock- 

 ing him down and breaking his right arm and some 

 ribs, in its wild anger ; it then stuck its horn into 

 him and tossed him twice in the air, afterwards 

 falling dead itself some few yards off. The poor 

 man lay alone, helpless and unconscious, for some 

 hours, till finally his gun-bearer came across him, 

 directed to the spot by vultures hovering overhead. 

 For over a week he had to wait before a doctor 

 could be found to set his bones. The doctor then 

 superintended his removal, and he was carried 

 slowly along by his porters back to civilisation. 

 Unfortunately he had to lose his arm ; but I think 

 the thought of how near he had been to losing his 

 life altogether must have partly comforted him. 

 He, curiously enough, was the last Nairobi man I 

 saw on leaving Mombasa for England. 



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