The natives told us that when the rains are drying up, immense numbers of game come out from the bush to feed on the new grass round the rapidly diminishing pools, and that often they could see as many as half a dozen rhino at a time.
Curiously enough, I had an exactly similar experience with my rhino on the Chambesi: the first shot from my 4-bore glanced off the shoulder, although a broadside shot at thirty yards and striking 18 in.
The following morning they brought us news of buffalo, which turned out to be three rhino lying under a tree.
It is curious how decidedly pink hippo and rhino look at a distance.
On the first day's trek we crossed rhino spoor about four to five hours old, and as Palmer, who was out of form, was unwilling to risk a long chase, I started off in pursuit.
I had left my glasses behind, and owing to the slight mirage could not be sure whether they were rhino or hippo.
The bush was ploughed up with rhino spoor, and that afternoon both Palmer and I unsuccessfully followed spoor of the morning.
The country had been very difficult, and I was just beginning to despair when I heard a snort, and looking up, saw the rhino trotting round the corner of an ant-hill, behind which he had been sleeping.
The next afternoon we moved further down the river to the Mafunso; and our carriers started a rhino on the path, the spoor of which we followed in thick brush.
They also had a fewrhino horns, which had been shot in the neighbourhood.
For some time the rhino had been travelling very fast, but suddenly the spoor freshened, and from the side of an ant-hill I saw a great pink body in the distance moving slowly through the grass.
They had got within four hundred yards from the brute when a faint puff of wind stirred the grass, and instantly the rhino shifted his position.
Berselius all the time was glancing from the rhino to Adams.
Run as if the Rhinoof the Sparling Circus were after you!
Run as if the Rhino from the Sparling menagerie were charging you!
We next went to another case and took out the cast of a common rhinoceros, such a one as lived in our own times, and it was very evident that the present-day rhino was not nearly so large or intelligent as his progenitor of long ago.
When the antediluvian rhino lived, the world was peopled with terrible monsters, brutes of great strength and savagery.
They gathered some of the leaves, and as soon as the rhinosaw that he ran away.
The rhino is approached stealthily and the large spear-point on one end of the sumpitan is thrust into its belly.
The rhino was about seventy-five centimetres high, strong and burly looking, and the posture of the young man on his back conveyed a vivid suggestion of action.
In case of a rhino being slain he will remove the horn, but the woman will cut up the animal and take it home, unless it is too late, when she postpones the task until the next morning.
As they began to take off the hide, cutting into his chest, the rhino became alive again, and the hide turned out to be the bark of a tree.
The two ran home, but the rhino came after them, so they again had to flee, pursued by him, until they came across a small tree called mora, of which antoh is afraid.
They came from the western division, and as the rhino had been nearly exterminated in the mountain ranges west and northwest of Tamaloë, the hunters were going farther east.
The rhino soon got tired and tackled the wolves and hyenas--what was left of them.
Not finding an antagonist worthy of his horn, the rhinobegan nosing the two mutual-minded snakes.
The sleepy old hippo was lumbering round in the flooded waist as though he enjoyed his salt-water bath; and the rhino was forward on the main deck, looking at the water as it washed up to him and receded.
But the rhino saw him coming down the stay and lumbered aft into the washing-water to investigate, rounding the port corner of the house just as the skipper reached the starboard.
The lion was dying, and the rhino simply hastened the job, goring him relentlessly until the bleeding carcass lay still.
And, as if this were not enough to complete the circus, the hippo and the rhino must get together.
The old hippo was happy, swimming and snorting round in the water; and the rhino seemed to have forgotten his grudge, busying himself with his real enemies, human beings.
Here that murder-minded rhino met us, and I jammed the muzzle into one eye.
Mr. Lion charged; but the rhino lowered his head, caught him between the forepaws with his horn, and sent him flying over his head, with a big gash in his body.
The rhino caught a hyena on his tusk, tossed him in air, caught him as he fell, sent him flying again, and then stamped his life out.
The rhino grunted and snorted at him and tried to climb the tank, but failed to get a grip on the smooth-painted staves.
Hippo made a plunging charge uponrhino and met that formidable tusk.
Meanwhile the porcupine had opened fire on the rhino, but did him no harm; and rhino was too big-minded to notice him.
When he arrived at Mombassa with his white rhino trophies, he was looking a good deal the worse for wear, and it may be computed that his system contained more than one man's fair share of malarial and tropical trypanosomes.
But Carden meant to bring back a white rhino from the shores of the Rudolph and he said so, though God knew that he too was sick of the business.
It is a subject for wonder that the six or eight tick birds do not keep the rhino free of ticks, and it has even been argued by some naturalists that the rhino bird does not eat ticks, but merely uses the rhino as a convenient resting-place.
In mostrhino charges it is my opinion that the rhino is too rattled to know what he is doing, and, instead of charging maliciously, he is merely trying to get away as fast as possible.
If that little rhino was any criterion of rhino pugnacity, then surely the rhino is born with the instinctive impulse to charge and to fight as savagely as any animal alive.
A rhino cow and half-grown calf were discovered on a distant hillside.
If the rhino is a wise rhino he learns from the birds which is the safe way to go and soon trots swiftly off.
Some animals, like the rhino and the eland, have tick birds that sit upon their backs and eat the ticks.
As a general thing the little birds, on sight of danger, begin a wild chatter, rising from the back of the rhino and flying in an opposite direction from the danger.
We fed our little pet rhino on milk and then swung it in a comfortable hammock made of zebra skin.
If we had stayed another week we might have got out a Tana River Rhino Directory, with addresses and tree numbers.
Drawing: Before and After theRhino Birds Give the Alarm] The rhino is a peaceful animal.
It's made with cured rhino hide and toughened with lacquer.
In some of the high country where the torrential rains wash hundreds of such gullies across the line of march it is hardly an exaggeration to say that travel would be practically impossible without the rhino trails wherewith to cross.
That each Trail Rhino shall carry painted conspicuously on his side his serial number.
And, of course, the feet of one's first rhinoare always saved for cigar boxes or inkstands.
What does a rhinolook like, where he lives, and what did you do the first time one came at you?
Rhino brought up short with astonishment, wheeled to the left, and made off at a gallop.
I spurred my own animal between her and the charging brute, with some vague idea of slipping off the other side as the rhino struck.
They differed from the rhino trails, from which they could be easily distinguished, in that they showed distinctly two parallel tracks separated from each other by a slight ridge.
The rhino went down in a heap eleven yards away, and one of us promptly shot him in the spine to finish him.
The safari is strung out over a mile or two of country, as a usual thing, and a downwind rhino is sure to pierce some part of the line in his rush.
The reason was supplied by a rhino that came grunting to his feet about seventy yards away.
This I ascended and began anti-rhino demonstrations.
But although we wanted no more rhino, we very much wanted rhino pictures.
If you keep cool, however, it is probable that the encounter will result only in a lot of mental perturbation for the rhino and a bit of excitement for yourself.
But I am afraid that the member for Buyemup-cum-Rhino will not bite.
There is the Member for Buyemup-cum-Rhino sitting on your right, and he is a wealthy bachelor.
For it was always my motto that when a man's heels feel light he should forthwith begin to foot it in a hornpipe; and when he feels thirsty, and has any rhino in his looker, he should pipe all hands for grog.
My messmates always shared in my rhino when I had any; and if your brother is not your messmate I should like to know who is.
I was the only creature disturbed by the shot, as the rhino had been dead some minutes--slain by my first shot; and my satisfaction was complete when I found the hole made by my bullet.
I ran after them, but the pace of a rhino is much faster than it looks, and I soon found pursuit useless.
On asking him why, I learned that the Taveta people had found three dead hippos in Lake Jipe and one rhino near its shores.
Eagerly pressing on, I was somewhat suddenly checked in my career by almost stumbling over a rhino apparently asleep on its side, with its head toward me.
The rhino was standing broadside on, motionless and apparently asleep.
There's a big rhino away over there," the youth said, keeping his eyes glued to the distant object.
You father is inclined to place the rhino as the most dangerous, while I would say the buffalo comes first.
What I meant, Bob, is that several years ago he was charged by a rhino and has not had full use of his legs since.
Being charged by a rhino is anything but pleasant.
A rhino cavalry regiment would carry away all the enemy's wire entanglements and prove as useful as armoured cars.
Then the nervous one would look up and observe a rhino gazing morosely at these intruders on the privacy of his own special tract of forest.
Lions roared nightly, and it was possible to stumble on a sleepingrhino at any time of the day.
His mule streaked one way, he another, and the rhino nearly broke his back in vamoosing in a third direction.
There is something peculiarly terrifying about a rhino charge in the camp at night.
You know when we left the Alert we had plenty of rhino in our pockets.
It was a bold step, and one which I should never advise a hunter to take, but somehow I felt as though rhino and I must play the hand out.
Unlike therhino and buffalo trails, they gave us head room and to spare.
One day a rhino charged him--without warning or reason.
Muztagh's tusk, driven by five tons of might behind it, would have pierced a ship's side, and the rhino limped away to let his hurt grow well and meditate revenge.
Plenty of young swells, with rhino of their own, would be after such a pretty girl with sixty thousand pounds.
Shooting the rhino for the sake of a woman is better than throwing the other kind of rhino at her head.
It was not a pleasant occupation thatRhino had taken upon himself.
Stoker James Jorkler, otherwise known as Rhino Jorkler, heard the order not without emotion.
But at the spat of the bullet the rhino veered toward the direction from which it seemed to his stupid brain the hurt had come.
It's absurd to go barging through a rhino country like this.
The real point is that you have no business to ride in a hammock through a rhino country.
The rhinoattacked this savagely, horning it, trampling it down.
Neither the direction taken by the Leopard Woman's safari nor the immediate surroundings of the night's orgy over the rhino carcass was desirable.
When we neared the point of attack, the rhino appeared panic-stricken, making very little noise--simply straining and heaving in its efforts to release its leg from the jaws of the crocodile.
While making but little headway, the rhino did for a time succeed in holding its own, keeping in shallow water, as the photos 1 and 2 show.
Neumann says: As has often been pointed out, the rhino is the most intensely stupid of animals, and marvellously blind.
The rhino still managed to keep on its feet, facing either down stream or toward the opposite bank, and for a distance of at least one hundred yards down stream had made no perceptible loss of ground.
Those I have been among have far less fear of rhinoceroses than of elephants, and as a consequence it is a rare thing to see a rhino in country much frequented by such of these people as have much skill and courage in elephant-hunting.
The rhino was a full-grown female with a horn which we estimated to be about twenty inches in length.
The rhino was held by its left hind-leg, which had been seized by the crocodile just as the big beast was leaving the river after drinking.
At least half a dozen of the porters, who had been lying in the bushes near the scene, in reply to my questions, agreed as to the manner the rhino was attacked.
Ali" was concealed in the bushes on the side of the river opposite the scene at the time the rhino came down to drink.
Whereof so long as the rhino do ring, the man is the man, and the master's the master.
Mrs. Clifton desired him to be explicit; but he continued in half sentences, repeating that the ready was not so easy to be had, and rhino was a scarce commodity.
He would not a sifflicate Sir Arthur, and advise him to stay at home, and so keep the rhino for the roast meat!
His younk onnur, I knows, will be a willin enough; that is, settin the case of a proviso of a doosoor consideration in ready rhino for himself.
