172 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP, 
so far failed to come across anybody who has 
actually tried the experiment. On the other hand, 
I have met one or two men who have been tossed 
on the horns of these animals, and they described 
it as a very painful proceeding. It generally means 
being a cripple for life, if one even succeeds in 
(Wass : 7 , ] 
““SLAVES CHAINED NECK TO NECK AS WAS THE CUSTOM.” 
escaping death. Mr. B. Eastwood, the chief 
accountant of the Uganda Railway, once gave me 
a graphic description of his marvellous escape from 
an infuriated rhino. He was on leave at the time 
on a hunting expedition in the neighbourhood of 
Lake Baringo, about eighty miles north of the 
railway from Nakuru, and had shot and apparently 
