Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-17

A couple Of hours passed The sun was
now high and the heat intense as we walked
over the. burned ground. The scattered
trees bore such scanty foliage as to cast
hardly any shade. The rhino galloped
strongly and without faltering; but there
was good deal Of blood on the trail.
At last, after we had gone seven or eight
miles, Kiboko, the skinner, who was acting
as my gun-bearer, pointed toward small
thorn-tree; and beside it l saw the rhine
standing with dropping head. 1t had been
fatally hit, and if undisturbed would prob
ably never have moved from where it was
standing; and we finished it off forthwith. 1t
was a cow, and before dying it ran round
and round in circle, in the manner of the
common rhino.
Loring stayed to superintend the skin
ming and bringing in of the head and feet,
and slabs of hide Meanwhile Kermit and I,
with our gun-bearers, went off with "shen-
z," a wild native who had just come in with
the news that he knew where another rhino
was lying, a few miles away. While bound
thither we passed numbers Of oribi and
went close to a herd of waterbuck which
stared at us with stupid tameness; single
hartebeest was with them.
Another Picture Spoiled.
When we reached the spot there was the
rhino, sure enough, under little tree,
sleeping on his belly, his legs doubled up,
and his head flat on the ground Unfortu-
nately the grass was long, SO that it was al
most impossible to photograph him. How
ever, Kermit tried to get his picture from
an ant-hill so yards distant, and then, Ker-
NIT with his camera and I with my rifle, we
walked up to within about 20 yards
At this point we halted, and on the in
slant the rhino jumped to his feet with sur
prising agility and trotted few yards out
from under the tree. 1t was huge bull,
with fair horn; much the biggest bull we
had yet seen; and with head up and action
high, the sun glinting on his slate hide and
bringing out his enormous bulk, he was in
deed fine sight.
l waited a moment for Kermit to snap
him. Unfortunately the waving grass
spoiled the picture Then I fired right and
left into his body, behind the shoulders, and
down he went In color he seemed OF eX-
actly the same shade as the common rhino
but he was taller and heavier, being six feet
high He carried stout horn, little over
two feet long; the girth at the base was
very great.
Leaving the gun-bearers with all our
water) to skin the mighty beast Kermit
and | started for camp; and as we were
rather late Kermit struck out at great pace
in front while followed on the little amb-
ling mule. On our way in we passed the
elephants. still standing where we had left
them in the morning, with the white COW
herons flying and walking around and over
them.
Soaring Away Young Rhino.
We wished for another COW rhino, so as
to have bull and COW both for the National
museum at Washington, and for the Amer
can museum in New York; and Kermit was
to shoot this Accordingly he and started
off early one morning with Grogan-a mar
of about Is, good hunter and a capital fel
low, with whom by this time we were grea
friends
1t was much like our other hunts. VIZ
tramped through high grass across big
swampy plain or broad valley between low
rises of ground, until on the opposite side
we struck by-this-time familiar landmark