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wind and sun were both exactly wrong, so Kermit could 

 not take any photos; and accordingly he shot the cow 

 behind the shoulder. Away both animals went, Kermit 

 tearing along behind, while Grogan and I followed. After 

 a sharp run of a mile and a half Kermit overtook them, 

 and brought down 

 the cow. The 

 younger one then 

 trotted threaten- 

 ingly toward him. 

 He let it get f with- 

 in ten yards, try- 

 ing to scare it; as 

 it kept coming 

 on, and could of 

 course easily kill 

 him, he then fired 

 into its face, to 

 one side, so as to 

 avoid inflicting a 

 serious injury, 

 and, turning, off it 

 went at a gallop. 

 When I came up 

 the cow had raised 

 itself on its fore- 

 legs, and he was 

 taking its picture. 

 It had been wal- 

 lowing, and its 

 whole body was 

 covered with dry caked mud. It was exactly the color of 

 the common rhino, but a little larger than any cow of the 

 latter that we had killed. We at once sent for Heller- 

 who had been working without intermission since we struck 

 the Lado, and liked it and waited by the body until he 

 appeared, in mid-afternoon. 



Mr. Roosevelt and Quentin Grogan 



From a photograph by Hermit Roosevelt 



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