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Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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inchester 30-40 as a reserve, I want to convince B that his .577 Webley and 8-bore Holland areunnecessarily large for this work. Kimbihas developed into a very dependable bearerand is in high feather at our to-morrowsprospects. Jan. 24.—My position is confirmed, and even B is convinced. Johnny Rhino wilted before the Winchester which is even not aspowerful as the Mannlicher. It was a ridicu-lously easy kill and only took a single car-tridge. The porters beat the rhinoout of a wait-a-bit thorn clump andhe charged them all over the shop.As he came quarteringly toward mewhere I stood on a little hummock, Iput a bullet into one of the creases in thebutt of his neck and, for a moment, thoughtI had not phased him, as he kept going.Just as I was about to fire again he stoppedand be^an coughing violently, the bloodgushing from mouth and nose at each hic-cough. Then he waddled into a patch ofhigh grass and laid down. I could see himplainly and thought his head kept sinking. 178 WESTERX FIELD
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r.LACK RHINOCEROS^ KILLED BY AUTHOR NEAR NJORO. Suddenly he jumped up and charged blindlyinto the open again, coughed, reeled andcoughed again, then tumbled over on his sideand the jig was up. On opening him wefound that the bullet had only musnroomedfairly, but his heart, liver and lungs wereone lacerated pulp. He was a fine specimen,and my only regret is that my boy boltedwith the camera when he charged and didnot show up until he was dead. After pho-tographing him we turned him over to theporters, who soon left but a few edible shredsfor the leopards and hyenas. It is astonish-ing how much flesh a score of these peoplecan devour at a sitting! April 15.—Basilonda, Somaliland.—To-morrow 1 leave for the coast, having takenfull toll of all the game in this section. Thismorning I stalked and killed a beautiful gi-raffe—concededly the hardest of all Africananimals to approach. It was a solitary bull,feeding all by his lonesome on a watti-wantitree, and I made a very creditable firs

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