WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



cattle are so precarious; for the most part they fall 

 victims either to the rinderpest or the poisonous sting 

 of the tsetse-fly. Moreover, this necessity of keeping 

 the captured young animals on a milk diet during the 

 critical period of their life also accounts for the fact 

 that we do not find any East African elephants, gi- 

 raffes, eland antelopes, oryxes. Grant gazelles, impallahs, 

 water-bucks, wodoos, and other wild game in our zoolog- 

 ical gardens, not to mention the smaller animals of the 

 East African Nyika. 



While I was encamped on the west side of the Kili- 

 manjaro, in May, 1903, I decided to make another ef- 

 fort — many had been in vain — to raise a young rhinoc- 

 eros for transportation to Europe. I acquired, there- 

 fore, a number of cows, stabled them w^ell, and then 

 went to look for the conditio sine qua non — namely, a 

 young animal of still tender and docile age. The rainy 

 season was just over, and the high grass, together with 

 the thorn-bushes, made the steppe almost impenetrable. 

 After searching the neighborhood of my camp for many 

 days, I located, at last, a female rhinoceros with her 

 young one. The mother had become suspicious and 

 was apparently scenting me. I did not want to lose 

 a moment, and fired, although the position of the ani- 

 mal was not favorable. The beast wheeled about and 

 disappeared with the young one into the thorny wilder- 

 ness. I had wounded her but sHghtly. Now began 

 an exciting and difficult pursuit through the impeding 



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