4^ T R A V E L S I N 
but the ravages affurcd me that, with theft 
animals, this plan was impradicable. I gave 
myfelf up, therefore, entirely to their diredion ; 
and we fet out, armed alike, with a good fufee, 
and Vvith the neceffary courage. All my 
hunters wiflied to be of the party, and each 
propofed to difplay the greateft prowefs. I 
caufed two of my ftrongeft dogs to be led in a 
leafh, in order that they might be let loofe on 
the rhinocerofes, in cafe it fhould be found ne- 
ceflary. We were obliged to make a long 
circuit to gain the lee-fide of them, left they 
fhould fmell us ; and we reached the river, the 
courfe of which we followed under cover of 
the large trees that grew on its banks, when 
Klaas foon made us obferve the two animals, 
at about the diftance of a quarter of a league in 
the plain. 
As one of them was much larger than the 
other, I fuppofed them to be a male and a fe- 
male. Motionlefs by the fide of each other, 
they w^ere ftill in the fame pofture in which 
Klaas had firft feen them ; but they ftood with 
their nofes to the wind, and confequently 
prefented to us their rumps. It is the cuftom 
pf thefe animals, when thus at reft, to place 
them^ 
