. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . nk of thesheltering mimosa concealed from view hotli the centralpairs of legs—conveying an absurd appearance of but asingle animal, and that about eight yards long ! Wehad crawled in to a thin tree about fifty yards away, and AV , who fired first, placed his ball on the shoulder of the nearer beast, while I, instantly thereafter, directedmine as far forward as was visible of his companion. Atthe shots, both rhinos whipped round, with snorts andamazing agility, and for several seconds, being at such 180 ON SAFAEI
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . nk of thesheltering mimosa concealed from view hotli the centralpairs of legs—conveying an absurd appearance of but asingle animal, and that about eight yards long ! Wehad crawled in to a thin tree about fifty yards away, and AV , who fired first, placed his ball on the shoulder of the nearer beast, while I, instantly thereafter, directedmine as far forward as was visible of his companion. Atthe shots, both rhinos whipped round, with snorts andamazing agility, and for several seconds, being at such 180 ON SAFAEI very close quarters, matters became lively enough tillanother shot dropped the bull with a broken hind-leg. The cow-rhino meanwhile made a determined dashas though to get round under our wind, circling back onthe left at a ponderous gallop, and hidden by interveningbush and clumps of tall grass. She, however, gave thesituation away by her snorting and the crashing of brush-wood. Kunning in that direction, I got a momentaryglimpse of her between two tall grass-clumps, looking. THOROUGHLY NASTY. thoroughly nasty, with head carried high and tail stand-ing erect. So threatening appeared this rush that {asshe was already within short distance of the wind) itwas necessary to take some risks, and at the next openingin the bush I gave her a quick shot which fortunatelysent her headlong to earth. The •450-solid struck thetop of the shoulder, smashing the spine, and she droppedin an upright position. The two rhinos lay dead withinsome eighty yards of each other. The third rhino, which, though nearly full-grown,was probably the produce of this pair, showed up outside HUNTING ON LAKE SOLAI 181 the bush beyond ; but after beginning an offensive demon-stration, we were o-lad to see retired whence he two rhinos carried blunt massive horns, measuringaround the base, No. 1, 18 ins. (front), 17J ins. (hind),and, No. 2, 18 ins. each respectively, the lengths being15 and 14|- ins. We
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