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minute, which seemed to me many, they were motion¬ 
less, and then turned inquiringly towards each other. 
Seizing the first opportunity of a broadside shot, I 
bowled the cow over with a bullet behind her ear. The 
bull ran some twenty yards and then stood, until a shot 
from my second barrel took effect in his neck, and 
brought him also to the ground. Wishing to spare 
the half-grown one, I tried to drive him off; but at 
twenty yards he came for me, so I had to stop him 
with a bullet in the chest. Thinking he was done for, 
I reloaded and approached him, upon which he rose 
and again charged with a vengeance. I fired my first 
barrel without effect, but knocked him over with the 
second when he was within five yards of me. It was, 
perhaps, fortunate this shot dropped him, as, although 
I jumped aside after firing, I think it very doubtful 
whether my activity would have proved equal to his. 
I now proceeded to examine my prizes. The cow 
proved a splendid beast with symmetrical horns measur¬ 
ing twenty-two and twenty-three inches. The bull was 
also a fine specimen, as Avell as an anatomical curiosity, 
for in addition to short anterior and posterior horns, 
he had developed a third horny excrescence far back, 
sufficiently distinct to entitle him to be considered as 
a unique example of the Rhinoceros tricornis. 
The natives, who had led me to the rhinos, got up a 
row with some fresh arrivals attracted by the shots and 
the prospects of obtaining fresh meat. Loud yells, drawn 
knives, and brandished spears threatened an immediate 
scrimmage, which I was only just in time to prevent 
