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husband jumped out and tried to frighten the rhino 

 away by yelHng at it and waving his coat. But the 

 animal charged and killed the man right before the 

 poor woman's eyes. 



Soon after this I came out of my tent one morning 

 and saw three rhino coming towards camp. They 

 were fighting and running at the same time. There 

 was also a baby rhino along which kept whining as it 

 tried to keep up with the older ones. It seemed 

 tired and was no doubt frightened at the nmipus 

 its choleric elders were kicking up. Then the whole 

 crowd disappeared in some bushes. 



After breakfast, Osa, Fiurber, Saunderson and 

 myself went to the place where we had last seen the 

 rhinos. Saunderson and Furber went into the bushes 

 to look for tracks. All of a sudden I heard a scream. 

 Then two shots, then more screams; then another 

 shot and more screams. 



Osa and I dashed over as fast as we could go and 

 entered the bushes. Saunderson was stretched out 

 on the ground with his clothing torn and a mass of 

 blood. At first I thought he was dead. But we 

 raised him up and found the rhino had got him in the 

 legs. He was badly cut up on his upper right thigh 

 where a horn had torn to the bone. We quickly 

 carried him into camp where luckily the cook had 

 plenty of hot water. I washed all the gashes and 

 put permanganate on them^ 



