. African game trails. Hunting. 212 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS disappeared in one direction my game disappeared in the other. At last a day came when I saw a rhino with a big body and a good horn. We had been riding for a couple of hours; the game was all around us. Two gi- raffes stared at us with silly curiosity rather than alarm; twice I was within range of the bigger one. At last Ba- khari, the gun- bearer, pointed to a gray mass on the plain, and a glance through the glasses showed that it was a rhino lying asleep with his legs doub- led under him. He proved to be a big bull, with a front horn n
. African game trails. Hunting. 212 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS disappeared in one direction my game disappeared in the other. At last a day came when I saw a rhino with a big body and a good horn. We had been riding for a couple of hours; the game was all around us. Two gi- raffes stared at us with silly curiosity rather than alarm; twice I was within range of the bigger one. At last Ba- khari, the gun- bearer, pointed to a gray mass on the plain, and a glance through the glasses showed that it was a rhino lying asleep with his legs doub- led under him. He proved to be a big bull, with a front horn nearly twenty - six inches long. I was anx- ious to try the sharp-pointed bul- lets of the little Springfield rifle on him; and Cuning- hame and I, treading cautiously, walked up wind straight toward him, our horses following a hundred yards be- hind. He was waked by the tick-birds, and twisted his head to and fro, but at first did not seem to hear us, although looking in our direction. When we were a hun- dred yards off he rose and faced us, huge and threatening,. Bluffs near one of our camping-places From a pliotograph by Edmund Heller. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, C. Scribner's sons
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