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TEDDY ROOSEVELTS FIRST RHINO Roosevelts African party spent a fortnight at the ranch in the Kitanga Hills and then started on safari northward the big line of burden bearers laden with the baggage of the expedition sixty pounds to a man They moved on across the high veldt to the foot of Kilimakin Mountain over Innumerable game trails and camped near a large ostrich farm in a grove of shady trees overlooking the vast plain plainRoosevelt Roosevelt hunting next morning with Slatter the owner of the ostrich farm some nine miles from camp had just sent a runner to fetch Heller the naturalist of the expedition to strip and prepare the skin of an eland he had shot when a savage from a native village near by came running up to tell him and his companions that there was a rhinoceros on the hillside threequarters of a mile tiwiiy tiwiiyThey They sprang to their saddles The luise beast was standing in the open like an uncouth statue of some prehistoric creature Unsuspecting he lay down downAs As Roosevelt stepped out of the shelter of the bushes to take aim the piglike eyes of the rhinoceros saw him for the first time AVith ex ¬ traordinary agility he jumped to his feet Roosevelt fired The animal wheeled and galloped full on him the bloud spurting from his nostrils Roose ¬ velt fired once more the bullet entering between the neck and shoulder and piercing the heart The great bull came on plowing the ground with horn and feet and dropped dead just thirteen paces away
