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fng the amount of large gamo then in the country Two 
Other gontlomon hunting in tho same region destroyed is 
one season no fewer than seventy-eight rhinocorosos alone 
Sportsmen, however, would not now find an equal number ; 
for, as guns are introduced among tho tribes, all these fine 
animals melt away like snow in spring. In the more- 
remote districts, where fire-arms have not yet been intro- 
duced, with tho single exception of the rhinoceros, the 
game is to be found in numbers much greater than Mr 
Cumming over saw. Tho tsetse is, however, an insuper- 
able barrier to hunting wi th horses there, and Europeans 
can do nothing on foot. Tho step of the elephant when 
charging the hunter, though apparently not quick, is so 
long that the paco equals tho spoed of a good horso at a 
cantor. A young sportsman, no matter how groat among 
pheasants, foxes, and hounds, would do well to pause before 
resolving to brave fever for tho excitement of risking such 
a terrific charge; tho scream or trumpeting of this enor- 
mous brute when infuriated is more liko what the shriok 
of a French stcam-whistlo would be to a man standing on 
tho dangerous part of a railroad than any other earthly 
sound : a horso unused to it will sometimes stand shivering 
instead of taking his rider out of danger. It has happened 
often that tho poor animal’s legs do their duty so badly 
that ho falls and causes his rider to bo trodden into a 
mummy ; or, losing his prcsonco of mind, tho rider may 
allow the horso to dash under a tree and crack his cranium 
against a branch. As one chargo from an elephant has 
made embryo Nimrods bid a final adieu to tho chase, inci- 
pient Gordon Cummings might try their nerves by stand- 
ing on railways till tho engines wero within a few yarda 
of them. Hunting elephants on foot would bo not less 
dangerous,* unless tho Ceylon mode of killing them by 
* Since writing tho above statement, it has received confirmation ir 
the reported death of Mr Walhberg while hunting elephants on foot ai 
Loire Ngami. 
