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IN AFRICA 
ences we had were exceedingly lucky ones, and per¬ 
haps exceptional ones in that respect. 
In only one instance was it necessary for us to 
kill a rhino and even then it was done more in the 
interest of photography than of urgent necessity. 
On our game licenses we were each allowed to kill 
two rhinos, and as I wanted one of the Tana River 
variety it was arranged that I should try to get the 
first big one with good horns. After a hunt of sev¬ 
eral hours we found two of them together out on 
the slope of a long hill. Our glasses showed that 
one of them was quite large and equipped with a 
splendid front horn nearly two feet long and a 
rear horn about a foot long. At the lower slope of 
the hill were two or three trees that screened our 
approach so that we were easily enabled to get with¬ 
in about one hundred and fifty yards of them with¬ 
out danger of discovery. From the trees onward 
the country was an open prairie for two or three 
miles. 
Armed with a double-barreled cordite rifle and 
the comforting reflection that the chances were 
seven to one that the rhinos would not charge, I 
slowly advanced alone toward the two rhinos. Be¬ 
hind me about fifty yards was the long range cam¬ 
era and a second gun manned by Mr. Stephenson. 
When fifty yards from the rhinos I stopped, but 
as no offensive tactics were apparent in the camp 
of the enemy, I slowly walked forward to thirty- 
five yards. Then they saw me. They faced me with 
what seemed like an attitude of decided unfriendli- 
