in behind his shoulder, when he rushed forward, blowing like a grampus, and then stood looking about him.
"Presently he started off, and I followed. I expected that he would come to bay, but it seems a rhinoceros never does that—a fact I did not know at that time.
"Suddenly he fell flat upon the ground; but soon recovering his feet, he resumed his course as if nothing had happened.
"I spurred on my horse, dashed ahead, and rode right in his path. Upon this, the hideous monster charged me in the most resolute manner, blowing loudly through his nostrils.
"Although I quickly turned about, he followed me at such a furious pace for several hundred yards, with his horrid horny snout within a few yards of my horse's tail, that I thought my destruction was certain.
"The animal, however, suddenly turned and ran in another direction. I had now become so excited with the incident, that I determined to give him one more shot any way.
"Nerving my horse again, I made another
dash, after the rhinoceros, and coming up pretty close to him, I again fired, though with little effect, the ball striking some thick portion of his skin and doing no harm.
"Feeling that I did not care to run the chance of the huge brute again charging