. Due viaggi africani, con note e suggerimenti sulla grande conservazione dei giochi in Africa; . sparato, esprang e venuto dritto per me, in modo che la sua testa di massiccio e corna coperto le sue parti vitali, e non ho potuto fuoco efficace secondo colpo. Alzandomi in piedi, aspettavo di saltare da parte, ma, qualunque siano le sue intenzioni originali, si fece un po' straripare, e passò tre o quattro yardsalla mia sinistra, quando mettevo il mio secondo proiettile in lui almostat il muso del fucile. Entrambi i colpi sarebbero stati beensufficienti, e dopo aver galoppato duecento yarde eslackened la velocità, posò giù ed è morto senza ulteriore mossa-

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. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . fired, hesprang up and came straight for me, so that his massivehead and horns covered his vital parts, and I could not firean effective second shot. Standing up, I waited ready tojump aside, but, whatever his original intentions may havebeen, he swerved slightly, and passed three or four yardsto my left, when I put my second bullet into him almostat the muzzle of the rifle. Either shot would have beensufficient, and after galloping two hundred yards heslackened speed, lay down, and died without further move-ment. I believe that more accidents have happened inEast Africa from rhinoceros than from lions. This isperhaps because the former are too blind and stupid todetect the presence of a man until he is very close, whenthey charge suddenly. In the open it should not bedifficult to avoid the charge ; in bush it is otherwise. The quantity of meat on a rhinoceros does not daunta Swahili. He approaches the task with a cheerful con-fidence in his own capacity, and even while cutting up the. BRITISH EAST AFRICA 23 carcase he crams quivering lumps of raw meat into hiscapacious mouth, as appetisers for the feast to come. Themeat once transported to camp, he sits down in a business-like way to work through it. The hunks of meat areskewered on a stick, which is planted among the emberstill the outside is black. While this meal is being con-sumed another is preparing, and this goes on, with briefsiestas interposed, throughout the day, and even the night.Their phenomenal capacity for stowing food is balancedby the power, not less extraordinary, of prolonged fasting.It is a common thing, when posho for six days has beendistributed, to find that most of the men have finishedtheir rations in half the time. But they cheerfullyencounter the lean period and carry their loads withoutinconvenience. Yet, if you come to think of it, it is notmore wonderful than that we should be able to last frombreakfa

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