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well, and not splitting into fragments, but seeming to cause 
a rending shock. 
I met with much more difficulty in trying to kill the 
young one I needed. I walked and trotted a mile after the 
herd. The old ones showed little alarm, standing again 
and again to look at me. Finally I shot one of the two young 
ones, at four hundred and ten long paces, while a cow stood 
much nearer, and the bull only three hundred yards off. 
But this was not all. The four survivors did not leave even 
after such an experience, but stayed in the plain, not far 
off, for several hours, and thereby gave Kermit a chance 
to do something much better worth while than shooting 
them. His shoulder was sore, and he did not wish to use a 
rifle, and so was devoting himself to his camera, which 
one of his men always carried. With this, after the exercise 
of much patience, he finally managed to take a number of 
pictures of the giraffe, getting within fifty yards of the bull. 
Nor were the giraffe the only animals that showed a 
tameness bordering on stupidity. Soon afterward we made 
out three rhino, a mile away. They were out in the bare 
plain, alternately grazing and enjoying a noontide rest; 
the bull by himself, the cow with her calf a quarter of a 
mile off. There was not a scrap of cover, but we walked 
up wind to within a hundred and fifty yards of the bull. 
Even then he did not seem to see us, but the tick-birds, 
which were clinging to his back and sides, gave the alarm, 
and he trotted to and fro, uncertain as to the cause of the 
disturbance. If Heller had not had his hands full with the 
giraffes I might have shot the bull rhino; but his horn 
and bulk of body, though fair, were not remarkable, and I 
did not molest him. He went toward the cow, which left 
