April.] THE HOTTENTOT AND RHINOCEROS. 181 
N.W. side of the town, I counted eleven villages 
or districts, and in the evening, to the S. E., 
eighteen districts ; several of these v^ere not 
inferior in point of extent to the king's district, 
so that the population may probably amount to 
ten or twelve thousand, and their corn-fields are 
at least twenty miles in circumference. They 
have likewise many out-posts for cattle, at all 
of which there are inhabitants. 
The Hottentots who guarded the oxen during 
the day shot a redbok, and those who went to 
hunt the rhinoceros killed two buffaloes and 
wounded a rhinoceros. One of the men [Jager] 
nearly lost his life by the latter. Two of those 
huge and ferocious animals came running towards 
him, when he tried to fire at them, but his piece 
would not go off ; he then fled into a bush, and 
was furiously pursued by one of these formidable 
creatures, which tore up the ground with its 
powerful horn as it advanced. After having en- 
deavoured to strike the terrified hunter with its 
horn, the rhinoceros was compelled, by the vio- 
lence with which it ran, to leap over the object of 
its rage, who was thus enabled to effect his 
escape before the irritated animal could stop and 
turn round its huge and unwieldy body. A 
Matchappee wounded two, and, expecting at least 
one of them would fall, he followed them till 
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