The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

walked over the next brow oa their way
TO water. Forthwith we set off in pur-
suit, crouching and creeping along the
valley, and hoping 10 intercept them at
the stream. Two passed safely over
before we could reach our point. The
third, seeing rs. turned back and dis
appeared over the hill. where a quarter
OF an hour later he was stalkcd and
wounded.
IT Is always the wounded beast that
leads The hunter into adventures. Till
the quarry is hit every one walks del
lcately, avoids going the wlDdward side
OF upeNplored covcrtS, skirts a reed
bed cautiously, notices 4 convenient
tree, looks often this wav and that.
But once the prize j almost within
reach. you scramble along after it rs
fast as your legs will carry YOU, and
never trouble about Tcmoter contin-
gencios, be they what they may. Our
nryN led us mile or more over rocky
slopes, always promising and never Civ
lug good chance for u shot. until at
last he drew Us round the shoulder of
4 hill-and there. abruptly. was the
rhlnoceros The impression WAS extra
ordinary. \ wide plain of white. with
cred grass stretched away to low hills
broken with rocks. The rhinoceros
stood in the middle Of this plain. about
LlN' uuuil'u dliS dNd III .l''l p4dfh
Silhouette; not Il tweutieth.ccntury an
imal ~ all. but an odd, grim straggler
from the Stone Age, He was grazing
placidlv, and above him tho vast snow
dome Of kibmanparo lowered up In the
clear alr of morning 10 complete n scene
unaltercd since the dawn OF the world
Charged By Behemoth,
The manner Of killing rhinoccros
in the open is crujelv mplc II is
thought well usually 20 select the neigh
borhood OF a good tree. where one eau
be found, as the center Of the encouu-
ter. If no tree is available, you walk
up as near as possible to him from any
side except the wipdward, and then
shoot him in the head or the heart. If
you hit vital spot, as sometimes hap
pens. he falls. IL YOU hit him any
where else, he charges blindly and fur
iously in your direction, aud vou shoot
him again, or not. as the case may be.
Bearing all this carefully in mind,
we started ont 10 do battle with Behc-
moth, We had advanced perhaps two
hundred yards towards bim, when a
cry from one of the natives arrested
US. We looked sharply to the right,
There. not hundred and fifty PAGES
distant. under the shade Of few
small trees, stood two other monsters.
In o few more steps we should have
tainted their wind and brought them
up with rush; and suppose this had
happened. when perhaps we were al
ready compromised with our first
friend. and had him wounded and
furious on our hands. Luckily warned
in time. TO creep back to the shoulder
of the hill, to skirt its crest. and 20
emerge hundred and twenty yards |
from this new objective was the work |
of few minutes. We hurriedly agree |
to kill ono first before touching the |
other. At such 4 range it is easy to |
hit so great a target; but the bull s. |
eve is small l fired. The thud Of a !
bullet which strikes with an impact |
OF ton and quarter, tearing through |
hide and muscle and bone with the |
hideous energy OF cordite, came back
distinctly. The large rhinoceros start
ed, stumbled, turned directly towards
the sound and the blow, and then bore
straight down upon us IN a peculiar
trot, nearly az fast as horse IS gal
lop, with an activity surprising in so
huge beast, and instinct with un-
purpose
Great is the moral effect OF a foe
who advances, Everybody fred, Still
the ponderous brute came on, as if he
were invulnerable; as il he were an