. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . Marq. dt lalScala, Photo. KHINO.—FROM LIFE. HUNTING ON LAKE SOLAI 179 nosiest bird in Africa—sprang from an interveningmarshy patch, rending the air with shrillest and mostpersistent vociferations. All Nature seemed to joinin common warning, yet no heed did those rhinostake. They stood side by side, the nearer beast (which wasthe larger of the two) covering the head, neck and part- iv ■^ .-*;. .-rfe^-^Sr^ ^ -m<w^ SLEEPING BEAUTIES. shoulder of the one beyond, while the trunk of thesheltering mimosa concealed
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . Marq. dt lalScala, Photo. KHINO.—FROM LIFE. HUNTING ON LAKE SOLAI 179 nosiest bird in Africa—sprang from an interveningmarshy patch, rending the air with shrillest and mostpersistent vociferations. All Nature seemed to joinin common warning, yet no heed did those rhinostake. They stood side by side, the nearer beast (which wasthe larger of the two) covering the head, neck and part- iv ■^ .-*;. .-rfe^-^Sr^ ^ -m<w^ SLEEPING BEAUTIES. shoulder of the one beyond, while the trunk 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 tha
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