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distinguishing himself in this way, his sudden display of 

 valour being in quaint contrast with his usual peaceful 

 avocation -that of looking after the donkeys! I had 

 unfortunately not noticed in time that the young animal 

 was of considerable size, and provided with correspondingly 

 large horns. Suddenly it turned round. The pursuers 

 became the pursued ! With screams and yells they took 

 to flight. 



It looks as though Hamis, the donkey-boy, must be 

 horned by " ol munj " in another second he gives out 

 a piercing shriek for help. He is now nearing me. With 

 a shot on the nape of the neck I am just in time to kill 

 the infuriated young animal not in time to prevent it 

 from crashing down upon the native. Fortunately, 

 however, he escapes without any serious injury. 



From all the foregoing narratives it will have been 

 gathered that one must be favoured by circumstances 

 in many particulars if one is to catch and rear a young 

 rhinoceros. It is to be hoped that in the next few years 

 these favourable conditions will be met with and that 

 some other specimens may be brought home alive to 

 Europe. 



On about forty other occasions I came upon rhino- 

 ceroses with young ; but either the young ones were too 

 strong to permit of capture or I was too far away from 

 camp, or there were other hindrances, so of course I did 

 not shoot. 



Generally speaking, rhinoceroses keep under dense 

 cover when their young ones are quite small, so that the 

 capture of these is very difficult and dangerous. 



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