20 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. 



brought him half round it, on the other. On that occasion, 

 however, my rhino galloped so far that I lost him through not 

 putting in the second barrel as he passed. 



Well, my victim of this morning (to return to him) galloped 

 off and I followed him with confidence. But no sooner had I 

 started in pursuit than I saw him — as I supposed — standing a 

 couple of hundred yards on. I made towards this one ; but 

 on the way passed my rhino already dead. Getting quite close 

 up behind another small bush I shot this second one in the 

 point of the shoulder, breaking it, though I did not feel certain 

 at the time that the bullet had penetrated to his vitals. He 

 plunged about, and on my tiny dog " Frolic " running in and 

 barking, charged sav^agely at her, ploughing up the ground and 

 carrying some of the soil between his horns. The charge 

 brought him towards me, so I gave him my second barrel in 

 front of the shoulder ; and after trying to stand on his head, 

 squealing like a gigantic pig, — as he is in appearance too, — he 

 subsided into a lying position on his stomach, and though his 

 ears flapped and his little eyes blinked still, was dead. It 

 turned out afterwards that the second was superfluous, as both 

 bullets had gone through his heart. 



Thus we had two rhinos dead, only about a hundred yards 

 apart. There had been rain the night before, and pools of 

 water stood in depressions in patches of bare red ground such 

 as occur here and there in this bush ; so we camped by one of 

 these which we found a short way off, for the convenience of 

 cutting up and carrying the meat. 



We remained here two days, the men cutting up and hang- 

 ing the meat in festoons. As they had as much as they could 

 deal with I did not attempt to shoot anything more there, 

 though there were giraffe as well as other game about. Waller's 

 gazelle are particularly fond of bush of this character, where there 

 are these bare patches of hard red ground. I made the acquaint- 

 ance of this queer-looking gazelle for the first time now, with 

 its extraordinarily long neck giving it the appearance of a little 



