WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



night, and I seldom let the creature out of my sight. I 

 intrusted its welfare to no one else, as I could ill-afford 

 to lose it after seeing it safely nursed beyond the period 

 of lactation. 



We reached Naples without accident. There the 

 young rhinoceros, the first ever to be brought alive to 

 Europe from German East Africa, was an object of 

 great curiosity. Dr. Heck had come on from Germany 

 to meet us, and had brought with him a special car for 

 the transportation of the rare animal. We decided, 

 however, to ship it to Hamburg by steamer. In spite 

 of a two days' storm in the Mediterranean it arrived 

 hale and sound in Hamburg, where Mr. Hagenbeck 

 made everything very comfortable for it. It has now 

 become completely reconciled to its new home and 

 surroundings, and still enjoys the company of its wet- 

 nurse, the African goat. 



I was not quite so lucky with the nursing of two 

 other young rhinoceroses which it was my good fort- 

 une to capture. Once, while on a hunting expedition, 

 I discovered the tracks of a rhinoceros with its young 

 one near a drinking-place. I followed the animals for 

 hours over stony, hilly ground. With me were Orgeich, 

 my European taxidermist, and fifty natives. At last I 

 managed to creep up to within about three hundred 

 feet of the beasts. They were standing under a locust- 

 tree. I fired; the bullet pierced a dry branch of the 

 tree and had force enough left to kill the older animal. 



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