A rhino with calf charging me, while trying to photograph 
it, I was forced to kill it; two “snap-shots” with a .450 Cor¬ 
dite, at about fifteen yards (neck and shoulder), doing the 
work, The tremendous striking-power of the .450 Cordite 
was strikingly illustrated in this case, as it bowled over the 
tremendous beast as if it had been a mere rabbit. 
Saw a herd of perhaps a hundred Cape buffalo scattered 
over the wooded plains across the Tana. 
Spent several hours in an unsuccessful attempt to find 
a ford; rather tantalizing. Saw quite a number of hippo, 
counting twenty in one herd. Learmonth, who prospected 
across the Thika, found the country very thick and thorny. 
Saw seven giraffe. 
About 4 P. M., Ali called Mrs. Fleischmann and Kennedy, 
who were traveling with the caravan, to come to the river, 
where a rhino was being hauled into the water by a crocodile, 
the saurian having hold of the beast’s hind leg. The struggle 
lasted about an hour and a half, the rhino being dragged a 
hundred and fifty to two hundred yards down the stream be¬ 
fore being finally pulled under. Other crocodiles evidently 
joined the fight, since, when the water rose to the rhino’s side, 
blood and pieces of flesh floated to the surface. Some excel¬ 
lent pictures of the combat were taken by Kennedy.* 
Marched sixteen to eighteen miles. 
Day’s bag : Learmonth—One bush-buck, 
One wart-hog. 
Fleischmann Two impalla. 
Warm. Camp’s position unchanged. Learmonth again 
crossed the Thika, seeing a large herd of giraffes in the dis¬ 
tance. Following the Thika River to Tana, he came upon an 
enormous herd of hippo, photographing them at thirty yards, 
and shooting one of them. 
I prospected along the Tana, shooting at a couple of hippo. 
* Note. —“A recent issue of the London Times credits Max Fleischmann with having 
witnessed a spectacle in the wilds of Africa which no other human being has ever beheld, 
and at the same time with having photographed the previously unheard of contest be¬ 
tween a rhinoceros and an alligator. The Times says the story of Max Fleischmann 
would be beyond belief if the Cincinnati hunter and traveler had not photographed the 
thing he saw. The statement appears in a two column story in the Times. The writer 
says that the rhino is a pretty speedy fighter, and that elephants hesitate to tackle him. 
Alligators, of course, are supposed to flee from it. But one husky alligator got hold of 
the hind leg of a big rhino in an African river, and made away with the rhino. Max 
Fleischmann witnessed the event and photographed the spectacle. The Times inform¬ 
ant says the story is related at length in one of the books by Selous, and that every one 
is obliged to accept the story because it is backed up by the camera.”—Cincinnati 
“Times-Star,” September 16, 1909. 
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