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skull has great length, and when the beast turned and 

 faced me I could not but remark on the enormous width 

 of its face, caused by the square mouth and flat front 

 surface of the horn. When it walked, its head was car- 

 ried low, and it seemed that the earth jarred just a bit. 



The huge bull walked slowly to within tliirty yards 

 of me and then must have heard the chcking of the 

 camera, for he moved away, to be foUowed by seven 

 morel I filmed them all as they crossed the screen, 

 one behind the other. 



After tliis scene, we photographed the mammals for 

 some three hours, from ma^y different positions. In 

 so doing, we took quite a few chances, for although their 

 vision is poor and their hearing not very good, they 

 have a marvelously keen scent, and as the wind was 

 somewhat gusty and often veered about, it kept us 

 busy keeping to their windward. Once the breeze 

 suddenly changed and placed us in a rather uncom- 

 fortable position. We were almost surrounded by the 

 eight rhinoceroses, when a whifi" of air carried knowl- 

 edge of our presence to a cow with calf. She turned 

 on us and snorted, then made a short dash forward 

 and things looked nasty for a while. Behind us, within 

 forty yards, stood three of the group, two more were 

 close at hand on our right, wliile the big bull was eying 

 us from a distance of not more than fifty paces to our 

 left. Had the cow charged, it would have been hard 

 to decide which way to run I 



We kept after a young bull, trying to get some real 

 close-ups, until he got peeved at our persistence and 

 charged. It came as a complete surprise, for we had 

 by now got quite used to the rhinoceros and had lost 

 all fear, so there was a mad scramble for a while. The 



