OP KELANTAN 163 



on the river bank itself. What was my dismay to 

 see our rhino swimming the river, and nearly 

 across. The top of its head, including its ear, 

 showed, and I made the base of the latter my mark 

 for three shots. Whether I scored or not I can not 

 say, for the rhino was going almost straightaway— 

 a little quartering— which gave me as good as no 

 mark, for of course it was waste of lead to shoot 

 into its big back. As the rhino got out on the bank 

 it quartered a bit more as it trotted into the jungle, 

 and before it disappeared I put two more 50-cal- 

 ibre hardened bullets behind the shoulder, ranging 

 forward. But the rhino kept on trotting ; and, for 

 all my rain of lead did to stop him, he is trotting 

 yet. 



I did not note if his ears were fringed. 



