THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
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While a party of hunters were occupied in cooking an antelope, a rhino¬ 
ceros intruded upon the camp, scattered all the camp equipage, and after having 
been wounded by an elephant-gun, calmly walked away. The next day the 
hunters tracked him and shot him anew, but even then he compelled them all to 
seek refuge in the trees, while it galloped off to a jungle and began mixing up its 
tracks. It was again tracked and shot, and a second time the hunters were obliged 
to climb a tree. Finally its immense power of vitality began to be exhausted, 
and it at last succumbed to the succession of bullets buried in its flesh. On 
another occasion six rhinoceroses charged upon and treed the hunters, though 
one of them was driven, tom and 
bleeding, for a long distance through 
the thorns. A tracking of one of 
the creatures resulted in a new 
exhibition of rapid climbing, and 
thus the pursuit went on with vary¬ 
ing fortune until the rhinoceros 
had received nine mortal wounds. 
Two sleeping rhinoceroses were 
surprised by hunters, and charging 
one of them, although receiving the 
contents of a gun directly down its 
throat, was able to first trot away 
and then to gallop off. Seven 
mounted hunters chased the pair 
for two miles, running neck and 
neck, but were never able to get 
nearer than two yards distant. On 
another occasion a keitloa or two¬ 
horned rhinoceros escaped on the 
run, after receiving a sabre cut from 
the aggageer—a small feat for an 
animal which, apparently, can run 
as fast and as long on three feet 
as on four. 
Rhinoceroses are trapped as fol¬ 
lows : A two-foot hole is dug in the 
pathway which he frequents, and a 
running-noose is laid on top of a 
hubless wheel whose sharpened 
spokes overlap, the other end of AN unprovoked attack. 
the rope having been made fast to 
a large tree planted slantingly at some distance. Rope and wheel are 
buried, and the ground smoothed over with a branch, in order to destroy the 
human scent. The animal, upon putting its foot into the hole, nooses his leg 
while the wheel renders release impossible. The five or six hundred pounds 
weight of tree the rhinoceros will drag after it, until being caught by the trees 
he becomes a captive doomed to death, for his intelligence is insufficient to 
suggest to him the cutting of the rope. A hunter, having dismounted and tied 
his horse, soon espied a rhinoceros charging directly upon the steed, and 
