promised to return direct home, he was somewhere
in the neighbourhood, and he and his two companions
were disturbing the country by hunting. I at once
gave up the idea of following the elephants,'as, in
all probability, these, aggageers had pursued them
some hours ago. In a very bad humour I turned
my horse’s head and took the direction for the
Settite river. As we descended from the billy
ground, after the ride of about four miles, we arrived
upon an extensive plain, upon which I noticed a
number of antelopes galloping as though disturbed;
a few moments later I observed three horsemen, a
camel, and several men on foot, steering’ in the
same direction as ourselves for the river, but arriving
from the high ground upon which we had
seen the elephants. These were soon distinguished,
and I rode towards them with my people ; they
were the aggageers, with some of the hippopotami
hunters.
Upon our arrival among them, they looked exceedingly
sheepish, as they were caught in the act.
Suspended most carefully upon one side of the
camel, in a network of ropes, was a fine young
rhinoceros which they had caught, having hunted
the mother until she forsook the calf. Johann
Schmidt had offered forty dollars for any young
animal of this species, for the Italian menageries,
therefore to the aggageers this was a prize of great
value. I had hardly directed my attention to the
calf, when I noticed a rope that was forcibly placed