The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-28

and was neatly noosed ] believe that
rope would have held a schooner at an
Choir off Montauk Point, put that rhi-
noceros made one plunge ana pfoke II
like thread. I hadn't real1zed MS
strength up to that time.
My next move was to seek point on
a path several miles from camp anu
erect a barricade. This barrlcade ran TO
a V-shaped point and was made strong
enough to hold an elephant. II a rhl-
noceros took that path he would FOLLOW
1t to the last inch, and when ne was In
close quarters we would be on hand TO
tangle him up. We had visitor almost
before we were ready. When the rnl-
noceros got along to the barrlcade ne
halted for a minute to snift the ar.
Then he lowered his head ana went
charging down the path. believed we
had him for sure, but he struck the logs
and rocks at the point of the V with
the power of wild locomotive and bat
tered his way through
Landed Him in n Pit.
1 now returned to a pit At soft
spot on path leading to water hole
we dug pit 20 feet long. 10 feet wide
and seven feet deep. This we covered
with poles, branches and dirt, until no
one could detect the danger lurking pc
meath, but we had our trouble for our
reward. The rhinoceros does most or
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 deer, the
next night another hyena. The one ami
NAL we wanted did not appear. we tried
again at another point, and this time IL
was a success, because l had the de-
tails more in hand. -..Jps !
When the pit had been prepared
went up the path about half a smiiflto
an opening and hung SHIRT on a
bush. I knew that If rhipoceros sight
ed that shirt he would chaFgevthe bush.
I climbed a tree and waited, and in 5ess
than an hour heard an old fellow epm-
ing full tilt. He went through the bush
like an avalanche, and on the path ne
found a red handkerchief. He picked
it up 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 a trap. He was
busting along at 20 miles an hour when
the earth gave way and he landed on
his head at the bottom Of the pit. We
had a time getting him out and into a
cage, and I don't believe he ever got
over BEND mad.
Captured in Comic style.
All my subsequent captures, with one
exception, were made in the same way
but we dug 10 different pits for every
capture and it was weeks between them
The exception was curious case. With
seven or eight natives following me II
Indian file, l was walking in a patti
through the woods. Of a sudden there
was cry of alarm from the rearmost
native rhinoceros had entered the
path, caught sight Of us and was charg
ing. We sprang into the bushes righ1
and left, and he wasn't 10 feet away
when left the path. Being under full
Roadway, he kept on for 100 feet ane
then left the path himself. AS he die
so he ran between two trees growing
close together. His weight and impetus
bent them aside for the moment, bu
as they came back they caught hin
just forward of the hips and he was
held fast. There was fun around there
for time. The old fellow dug up the
earth in great shape as he snorted anc
beloved, and if his headquarters hadn't
been held up in the air the trees coulc
not have held him. 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. u .'--
Until I knew the rhinoceros I sup
posed the elephant to be the boss of thu
| forest and plain!n3I hadn't been in AT