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in their immediate neighborhood with indifference; yet we 
have been informed by trustworthy eye-witnesses of one 
rhinoceros charging a herd of zebra, and another some 
buffalo. The rhinoceros gets out of the way of the elephant. 
It will unquestionably on occasions charge men and domestic 
animals entirely unprovoked. Twice we have known of one 
charging an ox wagon; in one case an ox was killed; in the 
other the rhino got entangled in the yokes and trek tow, 
and the driver, an Africander, lashed it lustily with his 
great whip, until it broke loose and ran off, leaving the ox- 
span tumbled in wild confusion. The year before we were 
at Nyeri one killed a white man, a surveyor, near that sta¬ 
tion, charging him without any provocation at all. At that 
time all the rhinos in that immediate neighborhood seemed 
to suffer from a fit of bad temper; they kept charging any 
one they met, and killed several natives. At last the district 
commissioner undertook a crusade against them, and killed 
fifteen, evidently including the various vicious ones, for 
from that time all attacks on human beings ceased. Rhinos 
frequently attack the long lines of porters on a safari, if 
they pass to windward of it. Probably this is not, as a rule, 
done from ferocity, but from angry bewilderment, the rhino 
finding the scent of man in his nostrils whichever way he 
goes, and finally thinking he is surrounded, and charging the 
line. Usually he merely runs through the line, tossing any 
porter who happens to be in his way; but he may grow irri¬ 
tated and turn and hunt down a porter. One man was thus 
killed while we were in Africa. Von Hohnel, the companion 
of Teleki and Chanler on their explorations, was on one 
occasion thus hunted down and very badly wounded by a 
cow rhino which had charged through the safari and had 
