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carried. While we were engaged in this field surgery 

 another rhino was in sight half a mile off. 



Then on we went on the trail of the herd. It led straight 

 across the open, under the blazing sun; and the heat was 



Dressing the porter who was tossed by the rhino 

 From a photograph by Theodore Roosevelt 



now terrific. At last, almost exactly at noon, Cuninghame, 

 who was leading, stopped short. He had seen the buffalo, 

 which had halted, made a half-bend backward on their 

 tracks, and stood for their noonday rest among some scat- 

 tered, stunted thorn-trees, leafless and yielding practically 

 no shade whatever. A cautious stalk brought me to within 

 a hundred and fifty yards. I merely wounded the one I 



