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In Africa

CHAPTER VII
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In case the charge became too serious to escape we hoped to be able to turn him or kill the rhino with our four bullets.

If we were unsuccessful in doing so--well, we had to manage the situation by jumping.
Our first experience was most thrilling, chiefly because we expected a charge.

We thought all rhinos charged, as per the magazine articles, and so prepared for busy doings.

A rhino cow and half-grown calf were discovered on a distant hillside.

We stopped in a ravine to adjust the picture machine and then crept cautiously up the hill until we were within about seventy yards of the unsuspecting pair.


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