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second charge, cutting his leg from the knee to the hip with her horn, 

 and knocking him over with a blow on the shoulder from her fore-feet. 

 She might easily have completed her revenge by killing him on the spot, 

 but she then left him, and plunging into a neighboring thicket, began 

 to plunge about and snort, permitting her victim to make his escape. In 

 the course of the day the same beast attacked a half-caste boy who was 

 in attendance on Mr. Andersson, and would probably have killed him 

 had slie not been intercepted by the hunter, who came to the rescue with 

 his gun. After receiving several bullets, the rhinoceros fell to the 

 ground, and Mr. Andersson walked up to her, put the muzzle of the rifle 

 to her ear, and was just about to pull the trigger, when she again leaped 

 to her feet. He hastily fired and rushed away, pursued by the infuriated 

 animal, which, however, fell dead just as he threw himself into a bush 

 for safety. The race was such a close one, that as he lay in the bush he 

 could touch the dead rhinoceros with his rifle, so that another moment 

 would probably have been fatal to him. 



The Keitloa is of a dark neutral gray color, as seen from a distance. 

 This animal droops behind, and has a stiff, clumsy, and awkward walk. 

 He feeds on bushes and roots, is nervous and fidgety when discovered, 

 but confines his movements generally only to the head and horns, moving 

 them about in an undecided manner, first one way, then the other. He 

 is not so excitable as the Borele. But both are fierce and energetic ani- 

 mals, and so active and swift that they cannot be overtaken on horse- 

 back. The Keitloa, it may be added, is more an inhabitant of rocky hills, 

 while the Borele loves the thorny jungle. The Keitloa, as well as the 

 Borele, extends as far north as Abyssinia. It exceeds, however, the latter 

 in height, sometimes measuring six feet at the shoulder. 



" Both species," writes W. C. J. Andersson, " are extremely fierce, 

 and, excepting the buffalo, are, perhaps, the most dangerous of all the 

 beasts of Southern Africa. Seen in its native wilds, either when brows- 

 ing at its leisure or listlessly sauntering about, a person would take this 

 beast to be the most stupid and inoffensive of creatures ; yet, when his 

 ire is roused, he becomes the reverse, and is then the most agile and ter- 

 rible of animals. The Black Rhinoceroses are, moreover, subject to 

 sudden paroxysms of unprovoked fury, rushing and charging with in- 

 conceivable fierceness animals, stones, and bushes ; in short, every object 

 that comes in their way." " The Black Rhinoceros," writes Gordon 

 Gumming also, " is subject to paroxysms of sudden fury, often ploughing 



