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ered on the previous occasion we came upon them. 

 Gathering the party together into a compact group, 

 the cameras were made ready for action, then with two 

 boys to carry the big movie outfit, one gun bearer for 

 any emergency that might arise, and Jones and I each 

 with a small camera, we crept slowly toward them. 



Now both of us had stalked the black rhinoceros 

 and I had filmed more than one of these truculent 

 creatures, but this was a different animal, and the sur- 

 prise and thrill that awaited us around the corner of a 

 small bush is impossible to describe. There stood not 

 two but five huge beasts, one of which would tower 

 over a black rhinoceros like the Woolworth Building 

 over Trinity Church 1 How many tons of flesh were 

 represented there I cannot state, but this mammoth 

 pachyderm gave me a good reason to look around to 

 see if the gun bearer were close at hand. He was not! 



The bull stood broadside on, a mountain of flesh 

 and bone, the profile of head and horns outlined 

 against the sky in such a way as to be more impressive 

 than if seen against a background of trees. They had 

 no suspicion of our being there and went on feeding 

 and nosing about. Placing the camera in position, I 

 began to grind away, and as I did, had the time to 

 make a few mental notes. These rhino are not white, 

 but might appear so in certain fight. The actual color 

 is a fight reddish brown. The horns are very long and 

 quite sfim, the front horn being the longer in all cases 

 — how long I would not care to say, for it would only 

 be a guess, but the record horn for a white rhinoceros 

 cow is over sixty-two inches. Its muzzle was truncated 

 and had no prehensile tip, this being why it is some- 

 times referred to as the square-fipped rliinoceros. The 



