The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-20

path several miles from camp and erect
a barricade. This barricade ran to O.
V-shaped point, and was made strong
enough to hold an elephant If a rhinoc-
eros took that path he would follow it to
the last inch, and when he was in close
quarters We would be on hand to tangle
him up. We had visitor almost before
we We're ready. When the rhinoceros
got along to the barricade he halted for
minute to sniff the air. Then he lower
ed his head and went charging down the
path L believed we had him for sure,
but he struck the logs and rocks at the
point of the V with the power Of a wild
locomotive and battered his way through.
LANDED HIM IN A PIT.
L now returned to a pit. At. soft spot
on path leading to a water hole we
dug pit twenty feet long, ten feet wide
and seven feet deep. This we covered
with poles, branches and dirt, until no
one could detect the danger lurking be-
meath, but we had our trouble for our
reward. The rhinoceros does most of his
roaming by day, and is careless whether
he follows path or crashes through the
bushes. The night after the pit was
ready We caught two hyenas in it. The
next day we caught a deer the next
night another hyena. The one animal we
wanted did not appear We tried again
at another point, and this time 1t was
success, because 1 had the details more
in hand
When the pit had been prepared I went
UP the path about half a mile to an OPEN
ing and hung red shirt on a bush. I
knew that If a rhinoceros sighted that
shirt he would charge the bush l climb ID
a tree and waited, and in less than an
hour l heard an old fellow coming full
tilt He went through the brush like an
nj
red handkerchief. He picked 1t I'D on
his horn and charged down the path. On
the far side Of the pit was another red
shirt, and in his anger the beast didn't
look for trap. He was busting along at
twenty miles an hour when the earth
gave way and he landed on his head at
the bottom Of the pit. We had a time
gettlng MIN out and into cage, and
don't believe he ever got over being mad.
CAPTURED IN COMIC STYLE.
All my subsequent captures. with one
exception were made in the same wav
but we dug ten different pits for every
capture and it was weeks between them
The exception was a curious case. With
seven or eight natives following me in
Indian file, l was walking in a rath
through the woods. OF a sudden there
was a cry Of alarm from the rearmost
native. A rhinoceros had entered tbe
pain, caught sight of us and was Charg-
Ing. We sprang into the bushes right
and left, and he wasn't ten feet away
when 1 left the path. Being under full
Roadway, he kept on for 100 feet and then
left the path himself. As he did so he
ran between two trees growing c,o.e to-
gether. His weight and impetus bent
them aside for the moment, but as they
came back they caught him just forward
of the hips and he was held fast. There
was fun around there for a time The
old fellow dug up the earth in great
. shape as he snorted and beloved. and If
his hindquarters hadn't been held up in
the air the trees could not have held h m
Half his power was gone. and when we
realized the fix he was in we roped his
legs and had him secure before we cut
one of the trees down.
Until / knew the rhinoceros l sun
posed the elephant to be the boss of the
forest and plain. hadn&t been in Africa
very Ions when L found out that the e.e-
plant played second fiddle. We were
hiding at water hole one day to watch
the direction taken by a troop of nine
elephants who were loafing about They