Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



Standing motionless, they peer lor a moment from the 

 undergrowth at the intruders, and then disappear in the 

 thick scrub. 



Xow we hear a snorting beneath us in an open space 

 in the valley. Two rhinoceroses, which have evidently 

 marked our approach tor some time, but have lingered to 

 investigate us thoroughlv bv means of their sense of smelL 



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break out, snorting like steam-engines, and at first make- 

 directly tor me;, but then suddenly swerve, so that they 

 go crosswise over our path, and disappear in the valley 

 at the other side. 



Both monsters go raging thus over a perfectly open 

 clearing, not further than fitly paces from me. lilting up 

 their heads, which are ornamented with two enormous 

 horns, and tossing them continually trom side to side. 



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