The whistling and hand-clapping which we had hoped would give them our location without doubt had merely served to tell them the way not to go.
The moving picture record of a "charging rhino" would have been a brilliant success but for one thing--the rhino refused to charge.
During the following ten days we made many similar attempts to get a charge and always with nearly the same results.

Once or twice we got within thirty yards before they finally turned tail after a number of feints that looked much like the beginning of a nasty charge.

It was always intensely thrilling work because there was the likelihood that we might get a charge in spite of the fact that a dozen or so previous experiences had failed to precipitate one.
In several cases the first rush of the rhino was toward us, but instead of continuing, he would soon swing about and make off, four times as badly scared as we were.

It seemed as though these preliminary rushes toward us were efforts to verify the location of danger in order to determine the right direction for escape.

In all, we made between fifteen and twenty different attempts on different rhinos to get a charge, but with always practically the same result, yet with always the same thrill of excitement and uncertainty.
[Drawing: _The End of the Charge_] Comprehensive statistics on a rhino's charges are hard to obtain.