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take a shot without having to judge the distance. The 
hollow bullet it carries also inflicts a considerable wound, 
and is quite heavy enough for all except the large game. 
The Caffres have had a good feed, and are visibly larger 
than yesterday in consequence. 
August 4th. Moved our camp again down the river, 
and came upon fresh spoor of the elephant, a small herd 
having evidently been down this morning to drink at the 
river. Of course we were all much excited at the chance 
of seeing the great game which I had quite given up all 
hopes of. We pitched the camp again at once, and I 
started off on the spoor with Dubois, the hunters, and 
some of the men ; but we had not gone above a mile or 
two, when the Caffres suddenly called our attention to a 
rhinoceros about 100 yards off in some low scrub. A 
council of war was held to decide whether I should go 
after him and run the risk of disturbing the elephants 
with a shot, but a bird in the hand being worth two in 
a bush, and this being the first rhinoceros I had seen, and 
decidedly large game, I went towards him with Swartboy 
(the hunter I always took with me), and walking up to 
within 60 yards of him I fired, unfortunately not getting 
a very clear shot. I hit him somewhere in the shoulder, 
and instead of charging, as I fully expected, he shufiied 
off on three legs, and I fired again hitting him with the 
second barrel ; but on he went much faster than we could 
run, and though we found traces of blood on the ground 
and bushes in several places, we couldn't come up with 
him though we followed the spoor for three or four miles, 
hoping he would come to a standstill. Finding I could 
not catch him we cast back again, and after a long trudge 
came up with Dubois who had kept to the elephant spoor, 
but as it was now getting late, and we had lost so much 
time, we thought it useless to go on, and made our way 
back to camp. It was fortunate we did so, as it turned 
