With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



Under competent and trustworthy management and with 

 adequate capital to draw upon, it could undoubtedly be 

 carried out most advantageously ; and if the interests of 

 science were kept in mind, such an enterprise would be in 

 the national interest and worthy of universal support. 



In May 1903, while staying on the west side of 

 Kilimanjaro, I decided to make a fresh attempt to get 

 hold of a young rhinoceros. This involved acquiring a 

 herd of cows and keeping a look-out for a cow rhinoceros 

 with a young one of suitable age. 



In the middle of a dense thicket, more impenetrable than 

 ever owing to the rank vegetation following the rainy 

 season, I at last saw what I wanted, after looking about 

 me for a long time in vain. The old cow rhinoceros had 

 already got wind of me, and any moment might see her 

 disappear into the jungle, so I was obliged to shoot at 

 her. She turned round as quick as lightning, and, followed 

 by her young one, went crashing and clattering into the 

 brushwood. My bullet had not been well placed ; the 

 slight extent to which she had bled showed that. 



Now follows an exciting and indescribably wearying 

 pursuit, my men and I winding our way in among the 

 thorn-bushes as best we can. Soon my clothes are in 

 shreds and my face and hands all torn and bleeding. 

 Every moment I expect to run up against the wounded 

 and infuriated animal. My men have crept up an ant-hill 

 in order to see what lies ahead. Suddenly what's that ? 

 One of them seems to have espied our quarry ! 



Quickly I clamber up the ant-hill myself, only to dis- 

 cover that it is a different rhinoceros a bull, judging by 



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