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and our shoes were soon dyed with its horrid red. We 

 were not long ascertaining the cause of the bull's death. 

 -In the belly was an awful rip, evidently made either by 

 the tusk of another elephant, or by the horn of a rhi- 

 noceros. Suspecting it was the latter, we began to look 

 around for the assailant ; and about twenty yards from 

 the bull, we stumbled upon the body of a black rhinoceros, 

 which seemed to have been killed by the thrust of an ele- 

 phant. Our version of the case was, that the wounded bull 

 had been attacked and killed by -the rhinoceros, and the 

 cow had punished the murderer. But, sinking sympathy, 

 we hacked off the tusks which were fine specimens of 

 ivory taking possession of the weapons of all the van- 

 quished, and leaving them in charge of Carollus, with 

 directions to drag them back to the camp. In the mean- 

 time, we took the bag of refreshments, and, emerging 

 from the scene so red with slaughter, made a tolerable meal 

 of our "cold cut." 



At the end of an hour, Carollus returned, and we once 

 more mounted, and rode away over the plain in search 

 of game. But an accident cut short our sport for the 

 day. As Mr. Barrill was carelessly riding within a few 

 yards of me, his horse stumbled into a kind of rut, in the 

 plain, and he pitched over its head. He fell heavily, and 

 on dismounting to assist him, I found that he had sprained 

 his ankle, and bruised his right shoulder. The injuries 



