With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



experience of a hurricane on the high seas which lasted 

 nearly two days. " Force of wind " and " Ship pitched 

 heavily " were recorded in the ship's log : the 6,ooo-ton 

 vessel leant over to the side at an angle of 45. 



However, the young animal stood the voyage well in 

 spite of everything, and at Hamburg Herr Hagenbeck 

 had, in the most friendly way, done everything to ensure 

 our speedy transit to Berlin a service for which I am 

 most grateful. 



So at last we are able to study this very interesting- 

 animal in captivity, and to note its growth and develop- 

 ment. It differs from its clumsy-looking Indian cousin in 

 its activity, in the length of its two horns, and also in its 

 relative good looks ! 



I got hold of two other young rhinoceroses later, 

 but I was not so successful in rearing them as I was 

 in this instance. 



In one case I found the tracks of a cow rhinoceros 

 and her young at a drinking-place. Accompanied tor 

 once by my taxidermist, Orgeich, I undertook their pur- 

 suit, which was to prove very long and very difficult, over 

 stony and hilly ground. As I got near her, she took to 

 flight, given the alarm by rhinoceros-birds. From the hill 



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on which I was I could see her and her young one making 

 off over the velt. On we went again, and presently 

 we espied her once more, in the middle ot a large meadow 

 of irrass with a few trees on it here and there. She was 



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standing still under an acacia, evidently disquieted by our 

 pursuit. I shot at her from a distance of about one 

 hundred paces. My bullet passed through a thick branch 



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