. Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa; . to ride with them. I should have been wiser tohave remained quietly at the camp, but I wanted to revisit the scene ofour encounter the previous day. Several of the blacks followed behind, whowere to be loaded with our spoils. As we neared the spot, I heard my friendsexclaiming in various tones: Where is it ? What has become of thecreature ? and, pushing forward, I caught sight of the elephant and thedead lion at a distance, but nowhere was the rhinoceros to be was very evident that it could not have been killed as we had sup-posed
. Explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa; . to ride with them. I should have been wiser tohave remained quietly at the camp, but I wanted to revisit the scene ofour encounter the previous day. Several of the blacks followed behind, whowere to be loaded with our spoils. As we neared the spot, I heard my friendsexclaiming in various tones: Where is it ? What has become of thecreature ? and, pushing forward, I caught sight of the elephant and thedead lion at a distance, but nowhere was the rhinoceros to be was very evident that it could not have been killed as we had sup-posed, and that, having only been stunned, it, at length, recovered itselfand had made off. 132 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Toko, one of the party, cried out that he had discovered fts trail,and I saw him hurrying forward, evidently hoping to find the other blacks meanwhile set to work to cut out the tusks, and selecta few slices off such parts of the body as were most to their taste locitsdlog the feet, the value of which we knew from THE ANIMAL SENT HIM INTO THE AIR. , a While they were thus occupied, my three white friends were fou?y mHaying the lion. I kept my eye on Toko, expecting thats should he dis-cover the rhinoceros, he would summon some of the party to his assistance. I saw him look suspiciously into a thicket, then he turned to flyThe next moment a huge beast rushed out, which I had no doubt wasthe rhinoceros we fancied that we had killed, on the previous day. Toko TWO CELEBRATED EXPLORERS. 133 made for a tree behind which he could shelter himself. I called to myfriends to draw their attention to the danger in which he was placed, butto my dismay before he could reach the tree the rhinoceros was uponhim. There was no time to leap either to the one side or the other, butas the animals sharp horn was about to transfix him, he made a springas if to avoid it, but he was not in time, and the animal, throwing up hisfiead, sent him and his rifle floating
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