98 ABVENTlrRES IN SOUTH AFRICA 



On the afternoon of the 4th I deepened my hole and 

 watched the water. As the sun went down two grace- 

 ful springboks and a herd of pallah came and drank, 

 when I shot the best pallah in the troop. At night I 

 watched the water with Kleinboy: very soon a cow 

 black rhinoceros came and drank, and got off for the 

 present with two balls in hei. A little afterward two 

 black rhinoceroses and two white ones came to the 

 water side. "We both fired together at the finest of the 

 two black rhinoceroses; she ran three hundred yards 

 and fell dead. Soon after this the other black rhinoc- 

 eros came up again and stood at the water side ; I gave 

 her one ball after the shoulder ; she ran a hundred yards 

 and fell dead. In half an hour a third old borele ap- 

 peared, and, having inspected the two dead ones, came 

 up to the water side. "We fired together ; he ran two 

 hundred yards and fell dead. I felt satisfied with our 

 success, and gave it up_for the night. 



By the following evening the natives had cleared 

 away the greater part of two of the rhinoceros^, which 

 lay right in the way of the game approaching the water ; 

 I, however, enforced their leaving the third rhinoceros, 

 which had fallen on the bare rising ground, almost op- 

 posite to my hiding-place, in the hope of attracting a 

 lion, as I intended to watch the water at night. Soon 

 after the twilight had died away, I went down to my 

 hole with Ifleinboy and two natives, who lay concealed 

 in another hole, with Wolf and Boxer ready to slip in 

 the event of wounding a lion. 



On reaching the water I looked toward the carcass 

 of the rhinoceros, and, to m}' astonishment, beheld the 

 ground alive with large creatures, as though a troop of 

 zebras were approaching the fountain to drink. Klein- 

 boy remarked to me that a troop of zebras were stand* 



