SECOND EXPEDITION TO SOUTH AFRICA or 
was making a sharp canter of it. Through the bush, on to the 
open plain, and the game was in view. I dashed ahead. One 
had good tusks, and I settled down to him. He soon turned 
on me. I had been shooting buffalo the night before, and as 
there was only an ordinary charge in the gun, wishing to get rid 
of it, I fired at long range—forty yards, I dare say. The horse 
was fidgety, and the ball struck eight or ten inches below the 
backbone ; to my astonishment, the bull took one stride and 
settled down quite dead. The bullet had cut the aorta. His 
companion had such small teeth I let him go free, and, making 
the carcase over to my Bushman, who was astounded at the 
easy way the animal had been disposed of, and telling him to 
_ keep the tusks till I returned, I galloped after my waggons. 
4 Three months passed before I was again in the neighbourhood ; 
| but while yet thirty miles off, the man, hearing that I was 
a coming on, brought the ivory to me. I was delighted to 
_ gladden his heart and reward his honesty with a present of 
___ beads and brass wire. 
: But the saddest of days was at hand. I had one pre- 
_ eminently good horse, the very pick of all I ever had in Africa 
_ —fearless, fast, and most sweet-tempered. Returning to camp 
one evening with a number of Kafirs, tired and hungry after 
_ a long day’s spooring elephants, which we never overtook, I 
saw a long-horned mahoho standing close to the path. The 
_ length of his horn, and the hunger of my men, induced 
_ me to get off and fire at him. The shot was rather too 
___ high, and he ran off. I was in the saddle in a moment, 
4 _ and, passing the wounded beast, pulled up ten yards on one 
_ side of the line of his retreat, firing the second barrel as he 
_ went by from my horse, when, instead of continuing his course, 
___ he stopped short, and, pausing an instant, began to wa/k de- 
-liberately towards me. This movement was so utterly unlooked 
for, as the white rhinoceros nearly always makes off, that, 
until he was within five yards, I sat quite still, expecting him 
_ to fall, thinking he was in his ‘flurry... My horse seemed 
_ as much surprised at the behaviour of the old mahoho as 
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