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thicket, and I brought up my rifle; but the rhino did not 

 quite place us, and broke out of the cover in front, some 

 thirty yards away; and I put both barrels into and behind 

 the shoulder. The terrific striking force of the heavy gun 

 told at once, and the rhino wheeled, and struggled back 

 into the thicket, and we heard it fall. With the utmost 



The second rhino 

 Front a photograph by J. A Iden Loring 



caution, bending and creeping under the branches, we made 

 our way in, and saw the beast lying with its head toward us. 

 We thought it was dead, but would take no chances; and I 

 put in another, but as it proved needless, heavy bullet. 



It was an old female, considerably smaller than the bull 

 I had already shot, with the front horn measuring four- 

 teen inches as against his nineteen inches; as always with 

 rhinos, it was covered with ticks, which clustered thickly 

 in the folds and creases of the skin, around and in the ears, 



