WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



disappeared into the ravine. I did not dare move until 

 he was out of hearing distance. Then we started on 

 our way back towards the camp, my men singing to 

 allay their fear and to scare away any animal that might 

 be concealed. The animal which I had wounded, a 

 strong bull, was found dead in the ravine next day. 



As a rule the rhinoceros does not attack a man, but 

 tries to escape, although the animal has been known 

 to charge without any provocation. It is, however, at 

 all times advisable not to take any chances and to be 

 prepared for the worst. 



I had many opportunities of observing the rhinoceros 

 and its habits, particularly on the high plateaus of the 

 watershed between the Masai district and the Victoria- 

 Nyanza — solitary animals as well as parties of three or 

 more, both in the primeval mountain forests and on the 

 open plains. In time I had become so well acquainted 

 with the habits of the rhinoceros that the danger of 

 hunting it became greatly diminished. 



I know no better way to give the reader a faithful 

 picture of the ways and habits of the rhinoceros than 

 by relating to him a few of my many experiences and 

 adventures with this big animal. 



One day I was hunting game in English East Africa 



not far from Kibwezi. I had killed a Grant gazelle buck 



with one extraordinarily large horn, when I saw, about 



seven hundred feet to my left, a strangely shaped, dark 



object. It appeared to be the uprooted trunk of a dead 



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