of sending a couple of bullets after
him. These, however, simply cracked against his hide and splintered to
pieces on it, sending the dry mud off in little clouds of dust. Their
only real effect, indeed, was to make him still more angry. He stood
stock-still for a moment, and then gored the ground most viciously and
started off once more on the semi-circle round me. This proceeding
terrified me more than ever, as I felt sure that he would come up-wind
at me again, and I could scarcely hope to escape a second time.
Unfortunately, my surmise proved correct, for directly he scented me,
up went his nose in the air and down he charged like a battering-ram. I
fairly pressed myself into the ground, as flat as ever I could, and
luckily the grass was a few inches high. I felt the thud of his great
feet pounding along, yet dared not move or look up lest he should see
me. My heart was thumping like a steam hammer, and every moment I fully
expected to find myself tossed into the air. Nearer and nearer came the
heavy thudding and I had quite given myself up for lost, when from my
lying position I caught sight, out of the corner of my eye, of the
infuriated beast rushing by. He had missed me again! I never felt so
relieved in my life, and assuredly did not attempt to annoy him
further. He went off for good this time, and it was with great
satisfaction that I watched him gradually disappear in the distance. I
could not have believed it possible that these huge, ungainly-looking
brutes could move so rapidly, and turn and twist in their tracks just
like monkeys, had I not actually seen this one do so before my eyes. If
he had found me he would certainly have pounded me to atoms, as he was
an old bull and in a most furious and vicious mood.

One day when Dr. Brock and I were out shooting, shortly after this
incident and not far from where it occurred, we caught sight of two
rhinos in a hollow some little distance from us, and commenced to stalk
them, taking advantage of every fold of the ground in doing so and
keeping about fifty yards apart in case of a charge. In that event one
or other of us would be able to get in a broadside shot, which would
probably roll the beast over. Proceeding carefully in this manner, we
managed to get within about sixty yards of them, and as it was my turn
for a shot, I took aim at the larger of the two, just as it was moving
its great head from one side to the other, wondering which of us it
ought to attack