African hunting, from Natal to the Zambesi : including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c. From 1852 to 1860 (1863)
Baldwin, William Charles, Powell, W. T. R., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R. Bentley · leaf 137
107 RHINOCEROS CALF. tongue, and hanging them up in a tree, we went off for water, and had not gone far when I saw another, about twenty yards off, looking at me, uneasy, and apparently trying to screen herself from being seen. I waited some time till she turned, and then shot her behind the… … not ten yards from me : a lucky shot, as I hardly knew where to fire, and I had not an instant to lose. I must have been impaled on her very long horn if I had not been fortunate enough to kill her. She had a very young calf, squealing most lustily, which the dogs were fighting with. I got them…
Hunting
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