that not three inches long. This is the forward one;
the rear horn does not appear until the animal is
several years old. Owing to the size of this animal,
Georere treated its rush with more o or less contempt,
and made no effort to get out of its way, until it had
nearly reached him. He then leaped to one side —
so did the little rhinoceros. Finding it pertinacious,
and determined to reach him, George took to his
heels. For ten minutes he sprinted up and down,
and dodged, as best he could, the determined charge
of the orphaned rhinoceros. During this diversion
George’s followers indulged in the heartiest and most
unsympathetic laughter at his expense; and although
he continued to shout lustily for a gun, none was
brought. A t length, when he was panting for want
of breath, and momentarily expecting to be knocked
down by the little avenger, one of the men slipped a
rifle into his hand, with which he quickly brought
down his pursuer.
Another of his adventures resulted in the death of
a fine male lion; it was during the excursion upon
which he succeeded in killing the two rhinoceroses at
close quarters. Th£ time was early morning, and he
was suddenly startled by seeing within a few feet of
him a lion and a lioness. They were standing and
facing him, but did not seem aggressively inclined.
He quickly brought the Mannlicher to his shoulder,
shot the male through the body, and it fell. The
lioness bounded off; George after it. He hunted
some time, but could find no traces of it. * Upon
returning to the spot where lay the lion he had shot,
he found all his men safely ensconced in trees, at the
foot of which the king of beasts stalked about, growling
and sweeping his tail. A second shot deprived
the animal of life. George’s men told him that, for
a moment or so after receiving the first shot, the
animal remained on the g r o u n d , apparently lifeless.
Suddenly they saw him rise to his feet; and, acting
upon this hint, they ascended the trees.
Examination disclosed the fact that the first bullet
had penetrated the entire length of the animal s body,
but had failed to reach its heart; the second shot
successfully performed this mission. The paws of the
lion were as full of thorns as the back of a porcupine
of quills; which perhaps explains the fact that,
with the exception of a bunch of dried grass, its
stomach was entirely empty. The thorns in the
lion’s feet probably rendered it painful and difficult to
hunt game; hence the empty condition of its stomach
.U
pon, my arrival at Daitcho, I was much surprised
at not finding Hamidi returned from the coast with
the new men, donkeys, and stores I had ordered.. He
was many weeks overdue. Knowing that his experience
in African travel would enable him to reach
the coast and return without difficulty, particularly
as the country through which his path lay was not
dangerous, I began to suspect that in some way he
had played me false; and made up my mind to face
the future without other means than those I had at
hand.
As before stated, Lieutenant von Hohnel’s alarming
condition necessitated his transport to a place
where he could receive the skilled attention of a phy