EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
by dashing into the midst of the fray and settling the 
question by telling the natives who had shown me the 
rhinos to turn their knives and spears in the direction 
of the young rhino. This satisfied them at once, and 
they were soon actively engaged in covering themselves 
with its blood, dancing and screaming with delight as 
they secured the most coveted pieces, as all well-bred 
savages should. 
On returning to camp I found that C-had killed 
two rhinos and a calf, but II-and B-had come 
in with an empty bag. We decided to delay our 
departure for another day, to give me time to skin the 
cow’s head, which I had removed whole, and to photo¬ 
graph the three horns I had chopped away from the 
dead bull. 
While engaged on this work the next morning, the 
cry of “ Two more rhinos quite close ” reminded me of 
yesterday’s four-mile tramp, but this time I went off 
prepared for a liberal interpretation of the phrase. For 
nearly an hour I followed my guides, attended by a 
howling mob of four hundred natives, and then came 
in sight of a rhino which had evidently winded us, as 
he was moving rapidly forward. We followed him for 
about two miles, when he halted under a bush ; but after 
stalking up to within thirty yards of him, I found I 
could get nothing but a front shot. As an experiment 1 
fired, aiming just above the eye, and he fell stunned, 
but quickly regaining his feet, made off with astonish¬ 
ing rapidity. We then went in search of his companion, 
reported to have taken refuge in a patch of thick bush 
