HORSE VERSUS RHINO 



show signs of exhaustion. Several times one or other 

 of the Americans managed to seize the end of a broken 

 rope and tie it on to another, but it seldom held for 

 long. 



It was exhausting work for all concerned, but 

 especially for the horses. They had, of course, by far 

 the worst of it. Their riders had the excitement to 

 keep them going, still I think the horses enjoyed it. 

 My assistant, who was on his first visit to Africa, I 

 placed within a couple of yards of a tree, up which 

 he could shin, w^hich he luckily did when things 

 became dangerous. I was on foot, and had the 

 rhino concentrated his attention upon me, he would 

 inevitably have succeeded in ridding himself of an 

 enemy. Yet during the whole of that long afternoon's 

 excitement I do not recall having thought of this. I 

 was out then to get photographs ; I had gone to an 

 immense amount of trouble to secure pictures of that 

 rhino being lassoed, and I was not going to be done 

 out of my reward if I could help it. 



The sun was getting perilously near the horizon, 

 when Jones decided to try and make the animal fast 

 to a tree. Loveless got him on the run again, leading 

 him straight down on to my camera, though fortunately 

 he pulled up in time. Obviously he was getting played 

 out by now. One of the broken ropes was caught, 

 another was thrown catching his hind leg, then 

 gradually and with infinite exertion he was tied to a 



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