WATCHING RHINOS 
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CH. XIV] 
into fear. Tossing their stumpy-horned heads, and 
twisting their tails into tight knots, they ambled briskly 
from side to side, and were ten minutes in getting to a 
distance of a hundred 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. As I watched them forty yards off, it was 
some time before the cow raised her head high enough 
for me to see 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, 
