A RHINO DRIVE. 
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no great distance off. Here I tried to organise a drive, 
into the spirit of which the natives entered to the 
extent of climbing the outlying belt of trees and yelling 
bravely. This manoeuvre resulted in my first getting a 
glimpse of a pair of horns, then hearing the beast crash¬ 
ing through the bush with a succession of loud snorts, 
and finally seeing him plunging rapidly across a small 
open space; here I got in two snap-shots that had 
the effect of making him leave the covert and seek the 
open plain. In spite of my entreaties, the attendant 
natives went howling after him, until, brought to bay, 
he charged one of the boldest, and, though severely 
crippled, pursued him for about one hundred yards 
until he nearly caught him. Then he stood puffing 
and snorting, apparently too exhausted to continue the 
chase, and enabled me to put him out of any further 
misery. The accomplishment of this feat was followed 
by the efforts of four hundred natives to shake me by 
the hand, in which they were partially, and as far as I 
was concerned, more than sufficiently successful. To 
this succeeded a sort of war-dance round the carcass 
of the rhino, during which the performers caught each 
other tremendous smacks with their knob-kerries, every 
give and take being received with the utmost good- 
humour and apparent enjoyment. 
I made my escape towards the camp directly I had 
obtained their promise to bring on the meat, detailing 
the only two men I had brought out with me to see 
that promise fulfilled; but my back was scarcely turned 
when they stripped the carcass to the bone, leaving 
