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Title: Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals ... found in the course of his travels
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, 1875-
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Philadelphia? Pa.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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arge herds of gameon every side, I observed a crusty-looking, old bull borele, or blackrhinoceros, cocking his ears one hundred yards in advance. He hadnot observed us; and soon after he walked slowly toward us, and stoodbroadside to, eating some wait-a-bit thorns within fifty yards of me.I fired from my saddle, and sent a bullet in behind his shoulder, uponwhich he rushed forward about one hundred yards in tremendous con-sternation, blowing like a grampus, and then stood looking about ;68 THE GREAT THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS him. Presently he made off. I followed, but found it hard to come upwith him. When I overtook him I saw the blood running freely fromhis wound. The chase led through a large herd of blue wildebeests, zebras,and springboks, which gazed at us in utter amazement. At lengthI fired my second barrel, but my horse was fidgety, and I missed. Icontinued riding alongside of him, expecting in my ignorance that atlength he would come to bay, which rhinoceroses never do; when sud-
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A KIND OP GAME THAT NETS COULD NOT STOP denly he fell flat on his broadside on the ground, but recovering hisfeet, resumed his course as if nothing had happened. Becoming atlast annoyed at the length of the chase, as I wished to keep my horsesfresh for the elephants, and being indifferent whether I got the rhino-ceros or not, as I observed that his horn was completely worn downwith age and the violence of his disposition, I determined to bringmatters to a crisis; so, spurring my horse, I dashed ahead, and roderight in his path. Upon this, the hideous monster instantly chargedme in the most resolute manner, blowing loudly through his nostrils; THE GREAT THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS i6g and, although I quickly wheeled about to my left, he followed me atsuch a furious pace for several hundred yards, with his horrid hornysnout within a few yards of my horses tail, that my little Bushman,who was looking on in great alarm, thought his masters destructioninevitable. It was certainly a very near thi

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