178 THE RHINOCEROS. 
thickest part of the wood, one of them rushe^^ 
out with great violence, crossing the plain 
wards a wood of canes two miles distao*'' 
But though he ran, or rather trotted, 
surprising speed, considering his bulk, he 
in a very little time transfixed with thirty 
forty javelins, which so confounded him, 
he left his purpose of going to the wood, 
ran into a deep hole or ravine without outl^^' 
breaking above a dozen javelins as he enter®^' 
Here we thought that he was caught as iP 
trap, for he had scarcely room to turn ; wheP ^ 
servant who had a gun, standing directly 
him, fired at his head, and the animal inH^^ 
diately fell, to all appearance dead. All 
on foot now jumped in with their knives 
cut him up ; but the moment they began, . 
animal recovered so far as to rise upon 
knees. Happy then was the man that escap 
first ; and had not one of the agageers io 
ravine cut the sinews of the hind leg as 
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