Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 226
last hearrives in the rhinoceros country. Skirting swampsand rivers, the men are ever on the lookout forthe deep, round spoors, like a pie plate driven intothe mud, for in this wet ground the rhinocerosloves to wallow. Frequently five or six monthselapse before the tracks of a cow and a calf… … AT SIGHT OF ONE OF THE SAVAGES THE RHINOCEROS DASHES WITH THE SPEED OF A RACE-HORSE AT THE MAN once aroused it dashes through the densest thicketwith the irresistible speed of an express-train. To catch a rhinoceros, the trapper proceedswith preparations much as would an explorerbound for a two- or…
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