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liminary rushes toward us were efforts to verify the 
location of danger in order to determine the right 
direction for escape. In all, we made between fif¬ 
teen and twenty different attempts on different 
rhinos to get a charge, but with always practically 
the same result, yet with always the same thrill of 
excitement and uncertainty. 
Comprehensive statistics on a rhino’s charges are 
hard to obtain. The district commissioner at Embo 
told me that he had been ordered to reduce the num¬ 
ber of rhinos in his district in the interest of public 
The End of the Charge 
safety and that he had killed thirty-five in all. Out 
of this number five charged him. That would indi¬ 
cate that one rhino in seven will charge. Captain 
Dickinson, in his book. Big Game Shooting on the 
Equator , tells of a rhino that charged him so 
viciously that he threw down his bedding roll and 
the rhino tossed it and trampled it with great em¬ 
phasis, after which it triumphantly trotted away, 
elated probably in the thought that it had wiped 
out its enemy. A number of fatalities are on rec¬ 
ord to prove that the rhino is a dangerous beast at 
times, and so I must conclude that the rhino experi- 
