50 Great and Small Game of Africa 



rushed up the nullah. Nothing more came to the water, and as soon as it 

 was light I followed the blood spoor and came up with her a mile up the 

 gorge, when another shot finished her. After photographing her as she 

 lay, I cut seventeen fighting shields from her skin for my men. 



At Hagog, south of the Webbi, I remember starting out one evening 

 to try to shoot something for the pot. I had just shot a dik-dik, when, 

 ioo yards farther on, I came on three rhinoceros standing in some 

 open bush. I fired at the biggest with the .577 as they rushed off, and, 

 after following for about half a mile I saw two of them standing on the 

 top of a stony hill trying to wind me. I managed to get up to within 

 30 yards of the biggest, when I suppose she got a puff of wind, as she then 

 came snorting down the hill like a steam engine. A dozen yards or more 

 away, I got in a good side shot, and 200 yards farther on she subsided. 

 Her appearance was so lifelike that, when the men came up, they would 

 not believe she was dead until they had thrown stones at her. This proved 

 to be a very large cow with three distinct horns, 15 inches, 14 inches, 

 and 3 inches in length respectively. 



Farther south, whilst encamped on a bare, stony ridge overlooking a 

 sea of mimosa, where we were hunting for giraffe, I frequently in the early 

 morning saw rhinoceros returning from the water-pools in the hills to lie 

 up tor the day in the dense bush below our camp. They were very 

 numerous here. 



From this same camp I was riding through the bush one day, and 

 came on two rhinoceros asleep under a mimosa bush ; there were no birds 

 with them. I sent the pony back out of harm's way and stood watching 

 them within 20 yards. I suppose they must have got a puff of the 

 wind, as they suddenly jumped up, and I shot the biggest, but let the other 

 go unmolested. This rhinoceros fell where it stood, with a single shot 

 from a .577 behind the shoulder. 



Two marches east of Milmil I shot a cow with a fine horn, 2oi inches 



