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yards. Then our shenzi guide mentioned that there were 
other rhinos close by, and we walked off to inspect them. 
In three hundred yards we came on them, a cow and a 
well-grown calf. Sixty yards from them was an ant-hill 
with little trees on it. From this we looked at them until 
some sound or other must have made them uneasy, for up 
they got. The young one seemed to have rather keener 
suspicions, although no more sense, than its mother, and 
after a while grew so restless that it persuaded the cow to go 
off with it. But the still air gave no hint of our where¬ 
abouts, and they walked straight toward us. I did not 
wish to have to shoot one, and so when they were within 
thirty yards we raised a shout and away they cantered, 
heads tossing and tails twisting. 
Three hours later we saw another cow and calf. By 
this time it was half-past three in the afternoon, and the 
two animals had risen from their noonday rest and were 
grazing busily, the great clumsy heads sweeping the ground. 
Watching them forty yards off it was some time before the 
cow raised her head high enough for me to sec that her 
horns were not good. Then they became suspicious, and 
the cow stood motionless for several minutes, her head 
held low. We moved quietly back, and at last they either 
dimly saw us, or heard us, and stood looking toward us, 
their big ears cocked forward. At this moment we stumbled 
on a rhino skull, bleached, but in such good preservation 
that we knew Heller would like it; and we loaded it on the 
porters that had followed us. All the time we were thus 
engaged the two rhinos, only a hundred yards off, were 
intently gazing in our direction, with foolish and bewildered 
solemnity; and there we left them, survivors from a long 
