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have no covert of any description. ( )n the other hand, it 

 shall not he murdered in its sleep, so there ring's out a short, 

 loud cry from me. How unfamiliar sounds my o\vn voice 

 to me in this tremendous solitude ! As if struck bv 

 liedunin^, the rhinoceros leaps up with incredible rapidity, 

 his ears pointed sharply forward, and offering me, half- 

 obliquely, a c^ood aim. 



Mv shot rint/s out ! Puffing' and snorting like ;i steam- 



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engine, the beast flings himself round twice in a circle, 

 seeking tor his toe;. I5ut already my rifle has spoken tor 

 the second time, and simultaneously with the sound the 

 mighty beast succumbs ; in the death-slru^'idc the heavy 

 head falls with a thud once or twice upon the stony 

 ground of the desert. I autiously I approach my fallen 

 prey ; the little, blinking eyes induce me to administer a 



