Title: Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888
Identifier: discoveryoflakes01hhne (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von, 1857-1942; Teleki, Samuel, Székigrof, 1845-1916; Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens, "Mrs. A. E. Bell,"
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ENCOUNTER WITH RHINOCEROSES 215 making for a solitary little tree some distance off. I saw it was hopeless to think of reaching it, and there was not so much as a blade of straw for cover anywhere. And behind the dead zebra, which would have been better than nothing, three of my men were already crouching. There was nothing for it but to brave the situation out, so I knelt on one knee, the better to take aim, and, my elephant gun in my hand, waited to fire till I could hope to kill. But it seemed a long time
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ATTACKED BY RHINOCEROSES. before I could get a chance of covering the shoulder of either of the huge beasts, and I knew a shot would be useless any- where else. So I did not pull the trigger till one of the animals was only some eight or ten paces off. The force of the heavy bullet, propelled by half an ounce of powder, would, at least, check its charge. I saw it stagger and fall, but the next moment it was on its feet again. It was not killed, but its ardour was cooled, for it turned away, followed by its

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