WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
legs of the beasts. Knowing the danger of their being 
irritated and annoyed by their limbs being encumbered, 
I ordered the ropes to be let fall on the ground in order 
that they should be disengaged from their legs, then, to 
keep them quiet, I took a quartern loaf which had been 
kept in readiness, and, going between them, broke off 
pieces of bread and put in their mouths. 
Having attracted their attention by these means, they 
got steady and turned round to follow me for the bread ; 
this enabled the men to again get fairly hold of the ropes. 
What had become of my friend Dr. Corrigan and the 
keeper with the bundle of hay during this little scramble 
I never heard, but certainly they were completely out of 
sight before we started the second time. No sooner had 
we started again (towards the house they were intended 
to pass the winter in) than I found their pace increase 
rapidly from a walk to a trot, from a trot to a gallop, 
myself taking the lead ; there was no time for talking, but 
awa}^ we went full pelt. I was closely followed by my 
rough friends dragging behind them all my brave army, 
whose weight, strength, and determined efforts did not 
appear to make the least difference to the speed of these 
brutes, but on we went. Fortunately I had directed the 
gates of the yard leading to the house to be set wide open, 
and which had been attended to, as there was no time to 
knock at the door. The animals bolted in and across the 
yard into the house ; I threw the remaining portions of 
the loaf on the floor and scrambled over the rails out of 
the way of danger ; they followed close at my heels, then 
came to a sudden stop inside the house, and all was soon 
satisfactorily settled. 
After the experience of the first removal of the two 
rhinoceroses, I thought it would be quite unsafe to again 
risk a run for it in taking them back to their summer 
