St Nicholas [serial] . jungle into civilization. There-fore the experts only chance is to find a cowwith a calf and to capture the young one. Compared with the alert, grim exterior of thefelines, there is little in the appearance of a phleg-matic, ponderous pig like a rhinoceros to indicateits real ferociousness. There is hardly a wildanimal in existence which is more dangerous thanthis rarest of all our menagerie captives. Awk-ward as the great creature appears when at rest, during hardships and privations, until at last hearrives in the rhinoceros country. Skirting swampsand rivers, the men
St Nicholas [serial] . jungle into civilization. There-fore the experts only chance is to find a cowwith a calf and to capture the young one. Compared with the alert, grim exterior of thefelines, there is little in the appearance of a phleg-matic, ponderous pig like a rhinoceros to indicateits real ferociousness. There is hardly a wildanimal in existence which is more dangerous thanthis rarest of all our menagerie captives. Awk-ward as the great creature appears when at rest, during hardships and privations, until at last hearrives in the rhinoceros country. Skirting swampsand rivers, the men are ever on the lookout forthe deep, round spoors, like a pie plate driven intothe mud, for in this wet ground the rhinocerosloves to wallow. Frequently five or six monthselapse before the tracks of a cow and a calf arepicked up. Noiseless and from well to leeward, the trapperand his men gradually steal nearer until the cowand the calf are inclosed in a circle. From ahead,out of the maze of cane and creeper, sounds the. AT SIGHT OF ONE OF THE SAVAGES THE RHINOCEROS DASHES WITH THE SPEED OF A RACE-HORSE AT THE MAN once aroused it dashes through the densest thicketwith the irresistible speed of an express-train. To catch a rhinoceros, the trapper proceedswith preparations much as would an explorerbound for a two- or a three-year expedition intothe interior of an unexplored continent; for thedifficulty confronting him is the threefold one offirst penetrating a thousand or more miles intothe interior; secondly, of finding not only a rhi-noceros, but a rhinoceros cow with a calf oldenough to capture; and, lastly, of transportinghis prize across hills and mountains and plains,over rivers and ravines, across swamps, andthrough forests, back to civilization. With ten or twelve natives and a span of bul-locks loaded with clothing, food, medicines, andammunition, the trapper travels for months, en- uneasy stamping of the cow. With a half-snort,half-grunt, in an instant the rhinoceros is
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