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approached him, he rose on his hind legs, and sup- 

 ported himself with his head, madly snorting all the 

 while. Seeing he could not move, I left him, and 

 ran back to see what had happened in the rear of 

 the caravan. The men in charge of Lieutenant von 

 Hohnel's litter reported that the other rhinoceros 

 had passed within a few feet of them, being diverted 

 from them by one of the porters the rhinoceros had 

 elected to pursue, but luckily did not overtake. 



The poor fellow who had been tossed into the air 

 received a hideous wound in the buttocks, and as he 

 lit upon his head when he fell to the earth, the hard 

 soil had broken away his entire scalp. He lived but 

 twenty-six hours after this mishap. 



A propos of this man's death, I will relate an inci- 

 dent which shows the weak degree of affection the 

 Zanzibari exhibit even toward near relatives. The 

 wounded man, a Manyema (a cannibal tribe on the 

 Congo), was a slave of Tippoo Tib, and had joined 

 my force at Zanzibar with two of his brothers, also 

 slaves. I naturally concluded that his brothers would 

 take more interest in his welfare than would other 

 porters ; so I instructed them to make a hammock, 

 and carry him between them, slung from a pole. 

 After a few hours of this work, they said it was far 

 better to let their brother die than fatigue them with 

 carrying him. They added that it was absolutely 

 God's order that he should die, and they were greatly 

 annoyed by the trouble their brother caused them on 

 the march. 



On another occasion, while passing through a very 

 thick bush, a rhinoceros appeared from behind a 



