WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



mined of animals, and will not rest until it has impaled 

 its foe. It often happens that a rhinoceros rushes tow- 

 ards a hunter merely to escape, not noticing the enemy 

 at all, for the eyesight of the animal is very poor. 

 When the animal really attacks, then the hunter is 

 doomed, unless he succeeds in killing it or in climbing- 

 a tree or an ant-hill or a big rock. 



The only true way, worthy of a sportsman, to hunt 

 the rhinoceros is to do so "unassisted." Reckless kill- 

 ing should under no condition be indulged in. It often 

 happens that a rhinoceros charges and reaches its pur- 

 suer. I once took c.are, for a few days, of a Sudanese 

 Askari who had been run through by the horn of a 

 rhinoceros, and had been repeatedly tossed high up 

 in the air by the infuriated, wounded animal. He had 

 been taken to my camp by an English government 

 physician, to whose caravan he belonged. The wound 

 was horrible to look at, and the condition of the pa- 

 tient appeared perfectly hopeless. Yet he lived through 

 the night. The next day, towards evening, his pain 

 became excruciating, and his moaning and groaning 

 were heart-rending. He begged to be reheved, and I 

 gave him all the opium I had, almost wishing that it 

 might prove an overdose. But the black fellow tena- 

 ciously clung to life. After twenty-four hours he was 

 still alive. To counteract the effects of the opium, I 

 made him swallow a bottle of salad-oil. The day after 

 he was transported to the nearest English station. The 



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