Kermit and his big lion. 
shoot it, and therefore desired to avoid a 
charge; and so we passed three or four hun¬ 
dred yards to leeward, trusting to its bad 
eyesight. Just opposite it, when it was on 
our right, we saw another hyena on our left, 
about as far off as the rhino. I decided to 
take a shot, and run the chance of disturbing 
the rhino. So I knelt down and aimed with 
the little Springfield, keeping the Holland 
by me to be ready for events. I never left 
camp, on foot or on horseback, for any 
distance, no matter how short, without 
carrying one of the repeating rifles; and 
when on a hunt my two gun-bearers car- 
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ried, one the other magazine rifle, and 
one the double-barrelled Holland. [See 
page 277.] 
Tarlton, whose eye for distance was 
good, told me the hyena was over three 
hundred yards off; it was walking slowly 
to the left. I put up the three-hundred- 
yard sight, and drew a rather coarse bead; 
and down went the hyena with its throat 
cut; the little sharp-pointed, full-jacketed 
bullet makes a slashing wound. The dis¬ 
tance was just three hundred and fifty long 
paces. As soon as I had pulled trigger I 
wheeled to watch the rhino. It started 
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