. r position so as to offer a better openingfor his aim, ventured to cast a stone at her. Instantly she rushedupon him with dreadful fury, snorting horribly, and tearing theground with her fact, while her expanded nostrils seemed smok-ing with rage; he had no time to note the elfectof his hasty shotbefore he was dashed to the ground, and his gun, cap, powderflask and ball pouch were spinning away through the air withthe violence of the blow. The tremendous momentum carriedthe beast stumbling some distance beyond him, but before hecou
. r position so as to offer a better openingfor his aim, ventured to cast a stone at her. Instantly she rushedupon him with dreadful fury, snorting horribly, and tearing theground with her fact, while her expanded nostrils seemed smok-ing with rage; he had no time to note the elfectof his hasty shotbefore he was dashed to the ground, and his gun, cap, powderflask and ball pouch were spinning away through the air withthe violence of the blow. The tremendous momentum carriedthe beast stumbling some distance beyond him, but before hecould fully regain his feet she had turned upon him and dashedhim to the ground a second time, tearing his thigh open with hersharp horn, and trampled him desperately in the dust. Shethen seemed to lose him, and as he crawled away to the shelterof a neighboring tree he saw her some distance off tearing thebushes, as if in unappeasable rage. Not only man, but the most ferocious beasts shrink from anenp-ao-ement with the rhinoceros; even the lordly elephant mani-. TRIALS AND ENCOURAGEMENT. 271 fests unqualified fear in his presence. Sometimes two or moreof these terrible creatures are known to engage in awful combatswith each other; it is then a scene indeed for the gladiatorialring; the earth trembles under their tramp, and the horriblesnorting and puffing sends a thrill of terror through all thebeasts of the forest. The white species was quite extinct alongthe eastern division of the Zambesi. It falls an easier victimof the hunter, and the native arrows and strategy together wouldbe a serious hindrance to its increase, but since these have beensupplemented by the powder and ball of civilized warfare theyare fast disappearing, even in the more southern country wherethey have been most numerous. After leaving Monina it was important for the travellers toavoid the villages, as the people nearer the Portuguese settle-ment exhibited the, natural enough, disposition to tax them,while in
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