Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27

Here the first thing we did was to run
into another rhinoceros. 1t was about 20
yards away, behind thorn tree and began
to move jerkily and abruptly to and fro,
gazing toward US.
ooh, you malevolent old IDIOT" l NUT
tered, facing it with rifle cooked, then, as it
did not charge, / added to Cuninghame,
"Well, guess it will let us by, all right.
And let us by it did. We were anxious not
to shoot it, both because in country with no,
settlers rhino rarely does harm, and OBJ
ject to anything like needless butchery, and
furthermore because we desired to avoid
alarming the buffalo.
Half mile farther on we came on the
latter, apparently past their fright. We
looked them carefully over with our gasse
the wounded one was evidently not much
hurt, and therefore did not wish to kill her,
for l did not need another COW; and there
was no adult bull. So we did not modest
them; and after while they got our wind
and went off at numbering gallop.
After leaving this camp we journeyed up
the Guaso Nyero for several days. When
ever on our hunts we had to cross it, we
shouted and splashed and even fired shots
to scare the crocodiles. l shot one on a
sandbar in the river.
The Giraffe That Wouldn't Run Away
One day we had a most interesting exper-
fence with cow giraffe. We saw her long
way off and stalked to within a couple of
hundred yards before we could make out her
sex. She was standing under some thorn
trees, occasionally shifting her position for
few yards, and then again standing mo-
tlonless with her head thrust in amorg the
branches. She was INDUCING in series of
noon maps
At last when she stood and went to sleep
again, walked up to her, Cuninghame and
our two gun-bearers, Bakhar and Kongon,
followed hundred yards behind When l
was within 40 yards, in plain sight, away.
from cover, she opened her eyes and looked
drowsily at me; but stood motionless and
she dozed off again.
This time l walked up to within 10 feet
OF her. Nearer did not care to venture, as
giraffe strike and kick very hard with their
hooves, and, moreover, occasionally strike
with the head, the blow seemingly not being
delivered with the knobby, skin-covered
horns, but with the front teeth of the lower
jaw
She walked, looked at me, and then, rear
ing slightly, struck at me with her left FORE
leg. the blow falling short laughed and
leaped back, and the other men ran ND
shouting. But the giraffe would not run
away. She stood within 20 feet of us, look
ing as us peevishly, and occasionally pouting
her lips at us, as if she were making face.
We kept close to the tree, SO as to dodge
round it, under the branches, if she came
at u.s. for we would have been most reluc-
tant to shoot her. threw stick at her,
hitting her in the side, but she paid no at
tention; and when Bakhari came behind
her with stick she turned sharply on him
and he made prompt retreat We were
laughing and talking all the time.
Then we pelted her with sticks and clods
of earth, and, after having thus stood within
20 feet of us for three or four minutes, she
cantered slowly off for so yards, and then
walked away with lesurely unconcern She
was apparently in the best of health and in
perfect condition. She did not get our
wind; but her utter indifference to the close
resence of four men is inexplicable.