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received, peculiarly liiisiiccessful, since yfe could never 

 hear that a rhinoceros had been bagged by it. We 

 accordingly posted ourselves at one end of the jungle, 

 and told our men to shout and make noises at the other, 

 but the rhinoceroses escaped across the river. 



Immediately after this piece of ill-success, we dis- 

 covered a herd of doe koodoo on the opposite bank. 

 Eiding across the strfeam; ^hich was about knee-deep 

 with a rather treacherous bottbrn; we pi?oceeded to Stelk 

 the antelopes, again without sticcessj a rtfan having 

 crossed the ground meantime and disturbed them. We, 

 however, caught sight of them again, alnd Mockler shot a 

 young doe. As we came up to the body two rhinoceroses, 

 one a huge beast, the other about three parts grown, ran 

 across the open about 150 yards from us, and disappeared 

 in a broad ravine. After peeriag about for some time, a 

 sharp-eyed Somali caught sight of the larger one standing 

 in the jungle, and by making a circuit we came within 

 100 yards. Nearer approach was very difficult, and the 

 bushes were so high that if we entered the broken 

 ground, near the other side of which the animal stood, we 

 should probably lose sight of her completely. Jesse and 

 I took steady aim, and fired. With the most astonishing 

 sound, a series of snorts like puffs from an enraged 

 steam-engine, the brute, with its young one following, 

 dashed into the bushes in front and came on towards us. 

 The moment it left the spot where we had seen it, it 

 vanished in the jungle, and only the snorting and 

 crashing of the branches told of its rapid progress 

 towards us, until it emerged just where we had been 



