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thick cover. There they stood, forty yards 

 away, their ugly noses lifted high in the air, in 

 complete astonishment. At the report of the 

 eight-bore, they started off at a great pace ; but 

 lOO yards was as far as the largest — a cow — 

 could go, the ball having entered her chest 

 and cut some of the large blood vessels. 



The smaller animal led us a long chase, 

 and, when twice wounded, charged quick as a 

 flash when only about twenty feet off, in some 

 high grass. He came right in amidst us, 

 and we only avoided being run down by 

 throwing ourselves quickly one side. My men 

 laughed and joked about it ; but, notwith- 

 standing their good nerve, I saw they were 

 not quite so anxious to close in on him again. 

 He gave in, eventually, to a little more lead. 

 A. D. S. also got a couple of rhinoceros, the 

 last one requiring a good deal of shooting. I 

 managed to get up very close to him as he 

 was going through the underbrush, and so 

 caught him with the camera. By quick work, 

 our men cut the throat of this animal before 

 he was dead, and, this becoming known, the 

 natives quickly swarmed around to strip off 

 the hide and meat. The skin of the rhino- 

 ceros is much prized for shields, and the 



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