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was much blunted at the tip, the result of some accident 
or wear and tear of some kind, so that it lost half an 
inch or so in length. But eleven inches looks for- 
midable enough, on such a fearsome head. The eyes 
are ridiculously small in a rhino. I think to such 
altogether inadequate optics much of the bad sight 
put down to the rhino must be ascribed. One would 
hardly think every single animal of this variety starts 
its career with bad sight, but that is what every 
hunter tells you. Go nap every time on the non-seeing 
powers of your enemy if he happens to be a rhinoceros, 
if you like, but see there is a tree to get behind before 
you begin. This is advice from myself. 
Next day was a poor one as far as sport was con- 
cerned. We were very stiff with so much crawling, 
though at the time we had not noticed it. We sent off 
a few men to retrieve the rest of the hide from the 
remains of the rhino, and when the camp was quiet 
we investigated the trophies, and overhauled them 
carefully. Some of them cried aloud in their agony 
for attention. The skin of the last killed lion was 
beginning to lose some hair in parts. And this was 
because, when we undid it and looked behind, great 
lumps of flesh still adhered, making it impossible 
for the preservatives to do any curing. It took us a 
long time to set this right, and we rubbed alum in as 
hard as we could on the inside. Of course, if the 
skinning is not carefully done, the chances are the 
trophy will have to be thrown away. I don’t know 
how we should have taken a catastrophe of such 
magnitude. 
