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Title: Adventure--travel--exploration
Identifier: adventuretravele00unge (find matches)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, 1875- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. , G. A. Parker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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i68 THE GREAT THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS him. Presently he made off. I followed, but found it hard to come up with him. When i overtook him i saw the blood running freely from his wound. "The chase led through a large herd of blue wildebeests, zebras, and springboks, which gazed at us in utter amazement. At length I fired my second barrel, but my horse was fidgety, and I missed. I continued riding alongside of him, expecting in my ignorance that at length he would come to bay, which rhinoceroses never do; when sud-
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A KIND OV TiAMlC THAT NETS COULD NOT STOP denly he fell Oat on his broadside on the ground, but recovering his feet, resumed his course as if nothing had happened. Becoming at last annoyed at the length of the chase, as I wished to keep my horses fresh for the elephants, and being indifferent whether I got the rhino- ceros or not, as I observed that his horn was completely worn dowai with age and the violence of his disposition, I determined to bring matters to a crisis; so, spurring my horse, I dashed ahead, and rode right in his path. Upon this, the hideous monster instantly charged me in the most resolute manner, blowing loudlv through his nostrils;

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