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CHAPTER L GOBO STU IKES. One day-ic was about a week after Alb Quatermain told rae his story of tho "Tar Lions" and of tho moving -death of Jim-Jim he and I were walking home together on tl termination of a day's shooting, ilo ht about two thousand acres of shooting rour tho place he bought ia Yorksh re, over hundred of which w ere wood. It was ti second year of bis occupation of the est?t and already ho bad reared a very fair head < pheasants, for ho was an all round sport ?man, and as fond of shooting with a sh? gun ns with an eight boro riSo. Wc wc: three guns that day, Sir Henry Cartis, oi -Quatermaia and myself, but Sir Henry bi "to leave in tho middle of. tue afternoon : ord.r to mest his agent and inspect au on lying Carra where a nev.- shed was wanto TJo was, "however, coming back to diane and going to bring Capt. Uood with him, f< Brayiey Hall was not more than two mil* from the Grange. Wc had met with very fair sport,'conside ing that wo were only going through ou lying covers for cocks. I think wo had kille twenty-seven, a woodcock and a leash of pa fridges which we had got out of a drive covey. - On our way home there lay a lon narrow spinney which was very favoril "lie" for woodcock, and generally held -pheasant or two as well. ell, what do you say," said old Quata main-"shall we beat through this for finish?" I assented, and he called to the keecpe: who was following with a little knot c beaters, and told him to beat tho spinney. "Very weJ^sir," answered the man; "br: it's getting wonderful dark and tho wind blowing a gale. It vr?l take you all you time to hit a woodcock if thc spinney hold one," "You show us the "woodcock, Jeflries, answered Quatermain, quickly, for he neve liked being crossed in anything to do wit] sport, "and we wiii look after shooting them. The Tn*?n turned and went, rather sulkily I heard him say to the under keeper, "Ile1 pretty good, thc master is, I'm not savin! that ho isn't, bat if he kills a woodcock ii this light and wind, Pm a Dutchman." I think that Quatermain heard him too though ho said nothing. The wind was risim every minute, and by the ?me thc beat begat it was blowing big guns. I stood at the righ hand corner of the spinney, which curvee round somewhat, and Quatermain stood a ?he left, somo forty paces from me. Present!} an old cock pheasant cc-mc rocketing ov?i me, looking as though the feathers wore al being blown out of his tail. I missed bin clean with the first barrel, and was neve; more pleased with myself in my lifo thai when I doubled him up with the second, f o the shot was not an easy one. In the fain light I could just see Quatermain neddim his head in approval, when through thi groaning cf tho trees I heard the shouts o: the beaters. "Cock forward, cock to th< right." Then came a whole volley of shouts ** Woodcock to tho right," "Cock to the left,' "Cook over." I looked u?j and presently caught sight o; one of thc woodcock coming down the wine apon my like a% fiash. In that dim light ] could noe follow ail his movements as he zig . sagged through tho naked tree tops; indeed I could only see him when his wings fiittcc ap. 2vow Lo was passing me-bang, and c fiick of the wiug. I had missed him. Bane again. Surely he was down-no, there h( ? went to my left. . "Cock to you,". I shouted, stepping for? ward so as to got Quatermain between mc end tho faint angry light of the dying day, ? for I wanted to see if ho would "wipe my eye." I knew him to bo a wonderful shot, but that cock would,-1 thought, puzzle hun, I saw him raise his gun ever so little mid bend forward, and at that moment out flashed two woodcock into the open, thc one I had missed to his right, and the other to his left. Ac tho same time a fresh shout arose of "Woodcock over," and looking down the spinney I saw a third bird high up in tho air, being blown along like a brown and whirling leaf straight over Quatermains bead. And then followed the prettiest little bit of shoot inT that I over saw. The bird to thc right was Cy lng low, not ten yards from the lino of a hedgerow, and Quatermain took Lim first because be would become invisible tho soonest cf any. Indeed, nobody who bsd not bis hawk's eyes couid have seen to sbx.ot him. But he saw him well enough to kiliTnim dead cs a stone. Then, turning sharply, he pulled . on the second bird at about forty-five yards, and over he went. By this time the third -Woodcock was nearly over him and Hying very high, straight down thc wind a hundred ?feet up or more??! should soy. .1 sa v.- him glance at it as he oponed his gun, threw out the right cartridge and slip:>?d in another, . turning round as ho did so. Dy this time tho cock was nearly fifty yardj away from him, and traveling Uko a flash. Lifting his gun, be fire i a?:<r ir, and wonderful as the shot .was, killed it dead. A "-earing ?rust of wind . caught tho dead bird and blew i: right away like a leaf turn from an oak, so that it fell a hundred and fifty yards o?? or more. "I say, Quatermain," I saki to him when the beaters were ap, "do you often do .this sort of thing?* "Well," he answered, wi di a ?ry smile, "the last time I had to load three shots as quickly as that was ai rather larger game, lt was at elephants;. I kided them ail three as dead o. 1 tided those woodcock: but it very nearly ?eut thu- other way, I eau tell you. 1 moan (dat they very nearly kided me." Just at that moment, the keopcr came up. *{DIi yea happen Ito get one of .them thors ?cocks, sir?" he said, with the air cf .a nun .who did r.ot in thc Iciest erpect an answer in thcaf?rmattve. .*V.Vd, yes, J'-dVies," answered Quater nam. "You will 2nd ono of then: hythe Ledge, a ni another about fifty, yards out by v-- ,-I....J \.j L.:C ?SL&. The deeper ?jad camed to go, locking a little astonished, when Quatcrmnm called Liai back. u2topabi?, Xef?r:es,M Lo said. "You see that pollard about 140 yards edi: Well, there should bj another woodcock down in a lino with i:, about sixty paces out in the field." "Well, if that beaut thc very smartest bit cf snooting," murmured Jeffries, and de? parted. After that we went home, and in due course Sir Henry Cartis and Capt. Good turned up to dinner, thc latter in tho tightest md most ornamental dress suit I ever ia w. I remember that the waistcoat was adorned .with five pink coral buttons. li ?va? a- very pleasant dinner. OM Pn-der main was ::. encollent humo;-, induced, I think, by thc r?c;>Uv::iioi> cf bis triumph over the doubting Jed.i-s. Coed, too, was fail cf anecdotes. Ile tb?d us a mont miraculous rtory cf bow bc once went sheeting ibes in luishudr. Thcs \ ibex, ru-rordiug toGcod, ho stalked cr.riv and late for four entire dava. At inst, < :i tl.: mo-rnmg if tho fifth day, ho succeeded-in felting with::: range cf tho Co-S.iy \.'.. '. ' ?'fe ; . ndlerut oil ram, with horns so long that I am afraid to mention their measure, and five or six fe? males. Good crawled upon his ."stomach, painfully taking shelter behind rocks, till !..? was within 200 yards; then he drew a fino bead upon the old rani. At this moment, however, a diversion occurred. Some wan? dering nativo of tho bills appeared upon a . distant mountain top. The females turned, and, rushing over a rock, vanished front : Good's Len. Buttheold ram took ?bolder -course, l i front of him stretched a mighty crevasse at Least thirty feet in width. Ho wear at it with ??. bound. Whilo he was ic midair Good fired, and killed baa dead. The ram turned a complete somersault tn space, and feil in such a fashion that his horns hooked themselves upon ?1>HC projec? tion of the opposite cliffs. There he hung, till Go-ni, after a Jong and painful detour, gracefully dropped a lasso over him-and ??bod him up. This moving tale of wild adventure was received with undeserved incredulity. "Well," said Good, "if you fellows won't believe my story when I tell it-a perfectly true story, mind-perhaps ono of you will give us a better; Vm not particular if it is true or not.'' And ho lapsed into a dignified silence. "_iovc, Quarermam," I said, "don't let Good beat you; let's hear how you killed those clo pliants you were talking about this evening just after you shot the woodcocks." "Weil," said Quatermnin, dryly, and with something like a twinkle in his brown eyes, "it i J very h:ird fortuno for a man to have to follow or. Good's'spoor.' Indeed, if it were not for that running giraffe, which,-as you will remember, Curtis, we saw Good bowl ?vcr with a Martini rifle at 300 yards, I should almost have said that this was au im pcsible tale." Hero Good looked np with an air of indig? nant innocence. "However," he went on, rising and light? ing his pipe,'"if you fellows like, I will spin you a yarn. "I was ti lling one of you the other night about those three lions, and how the lioness finished my unfortunate 'voorlooper* Jim, Jim, the bov whom we buried ia tho bread bag. "Well, after that little experience I thought that I would settle do wu a bit, so I went in for a venture with a man who, being of a speculative mind, had conceived the idea of running a st oro at Pretoria upon strictly cash principles. The arrangement was that I should find tho capital and he the experience. Our partnership was not of long duration. The Boera refused to pay cash, and at the end of four months m}* partner had thc capital and I had the experience. After this I came to the conclusion that storekeeping was not in my line, and, having ?400 left, I sent my boy Harry to a school in Natal, and, buying an outfit with what* remained of tho money, started upon a big trip. This time I deter? mined to go further afield than I had ever been before, so I got a passage for a few ? pounds in a trading brig that ran between \ Durband and Delagoa bay. From Delagoa bay I marched inland, 'accompanied by ! twenty porters, with the idea of striking up north toward the Limpo?>o, and keeping par? allel to, but at a distance of about 150 miles from, the coast. For the first twenty days I of our journey wo suffered a great deal from i fever-that is, my men did, for I think that j I am fever proof. Also I was hard pot to it to keep tho camp in meat, for j although the country proved to be very sparsely populated, there was but little game I about. Indeed, during all that timo I J hardly killed anything larger than a water | buck, and water buck is, as you know, not very appetizing food. On the twentieth da}-, however, we came to the banks of a largish river, the Gonooroo it was caljed. This I crossed, and then struck inland toward a I great range of mountains, a continuation, as I believe, of the Drakensberg range that i skirts the coast of Natal, tho blue crests of j which we could sec lying on tho distant j heavens like a shadow. From this main ; range a great spur shot out some fifty miles or so toward the coast, ending abruptly in . one tremendous geak. This spur I discov? ered separated the^ierritories of two chiefs named Nala and Warn be, Wambels terri? tory being to tho north and Nala's to tho south. Nala ruled a tribe of bastard Zulus j called the Butiana, and Wambo a much j larger tribe called the Matuka, which prc- j seated marked Basutu characteristics. For j instance., they had doors and verandas to i their huts, worked skins perfectly, and were j a waist cloth, not a moocha. The Butiana ? .were more or less subject to the Matuku, I haring been surprised by them some twenty years before, and mercilessly slaughtered I down. Tho tribe was, however, now rccov- j ermg, and, as you may imagine, it did not j love thc -latuku. "Well, I heard a~ I vrcnt along that eic- j pliants were very plentiful in the dense forests that lay upon tho slopes and at tho foot o? ? the mountains that bordered Wami ?e's terri- j tory. Also I heard a very iii report of that worthy himself,* who lived in a kraal upon j the side of the mountain, which was .co ! strongly fortified at to be practically im- ! pregnable. It was said that he was thermos, ! cruel chief in this part of Africa, and that ? he had murdered in coi ii blood an entire ; party of English gentleman "who, some seven ; years before, had gone into his country to j hunt elephants. They had an cid f rie::d of j mine with them as guide, Jehu Every by ; name, and often had-1 mouraoJ over his mi- j timely death. All the same, Wambo or no j Wambo, I determined to hunt elephant in j his country. I never was afraid <?f natives, j mid I was not 'going to show ?he whjto i feather now. I am a bi: of a fatalism. as you J fellows ?mow, so I came to thc coivit-ion ? that if it was fated that Wambo shoal- send ! me to join my old friend Every, I should have to go and there was au end of ic. Me* n while I meant to hunt elephant with a peao ful heart. "On the third day from the date of our ' sighting the great peak we found ourselves | beneath its mighty- shadow. Still following j the course of thc river, which wound through j the forests at the base of the peak, wo en- j ie red the territory cf tho redoubtable j Wambo. This, however, was not accom- j pl "bed without a certain di_orcnce cf cpi-on between my bearers, and myself, for j when wo reached the si?ot where Wambc's j boundary was supposed run the bearers j sat down, and emphatically refused to go a j step farther. I sat do um, too, and argued j with them, putting my fatalistic view before ! them as well as 1 was able. But I could not J persuado them tb lookat tho matter in the : s__e light. 'At present,' chev said, *their j ?kins were whole:' if they went into Wambe's j country without his leave they would LUVZI Le j like a v.-;;tor eaten leaf. It was very well for me to say that that would be Fate. Fate, no doubt, might lc wai_i__ about in Wambels country, but while they stopped outside they v/ouM not meet him. 'Well,' I said to Gobo, my headman, 'and j v. _at (io \ ca mean to do? "'Wc mean, to go back to the coast, 2_aeu- ! maa'dm," ha answered, insolently. " _>o you;' I replied, for my bile was stir- j red . 'At any rate. -vir. Cobo, you aud ene ! cr two ethers will never _et there. See here, my fr?en V.' and I took a repeating riao and j f myself comfortably down, resting my j lack . .;-;iu>t a tree-_ have just breakfasted ! : ::i I Lad as soon spend the day herc as any \.. : re ei->.. l:<j\> ii yea cr any cf these men .v;:Jl: euc step back from her? and towards ; thc coast 7 shall fire at you, and you know I j (]<-::"!. miss.' "Tho man fingered tho spear ho was car rying-luckily all the guns were stacked . against the tree-and then turned as though I to. walk away, the others keeping their eyes i fL-e.1 upon him all tho while. I rose and . covered hmi with the rifle, and though !.<. kept upa brave appearance of unconcern, I saw be was glancing net vously at rac all thc j time. Whi n >:<-. had gono about twenty ' yards, I spoke very quietly. " 'Now, Gobo,' I sa:-!, 'come back, or I : shall fire.? ?m%?z bk- ! ? r ; j ." -fl rf * Afjt i h A <-- * H. I W\ H ki* ,? l'Comc back, or Ashall fire." "Of course this was taking ..: *oryh?gb band. I had no real ri ut to kill(k?bo<?r anyl?ody els?? because they objected to run? ning the risk of death i'v entering tii" tvm t<-ry of a !:.-::ieri::. !. but I felt that if I v. ished to !:i*.;> up :?:V ?Ul horitV il w:is abso lutely necessary that ( shouhl push mattera tc the Jas' extremity :: rt of uctuaily s?KX?t iag bia:. And ? stood there, looking as fierce. as a lion and keeping the sight of ray ril a dead line for Gabe's ribs. Then Gobo, ing that tho situation was getting strai gave in. " "Don't shoot, boss!' ho shouted, thr?' up his hand; 4I will come with you." " 'I thought you would,' I answ( quietly. 'You see Fate wallas outside \\ be's country as well as in it-.'. "After that I had no more trouble, Gobo was the ringleader, and when ho lapsed the others collapsed also. Hara being thus restored, wo crossed the line, on the following morning I began shoe in good earnest. CHAPTER IL A sroitrnxG's SPOUT. "Gloving some five or sis miles round base of tho great peak of which I 1 spoken, we came the same da}' to one of fairest bits of African country that I 1 seen outside of Kukuanaland. At this ! the mountain spur that runs out at r angles to the great range, which stretche mighty cloud clad length north and sout far as the eye can reach, sweeps inward i a vast and splendid curve. This ct measures some five-and-tbirty miles f point to point, and across..its moonlikc meat the river flashed, a silver line of li, On the farther side of the river is a meas less sea of swelling ground, a mighty natl park covered with great patches of bi some of them being man}' square mile extent,'which are separated one from an?i by glades of grass land, broken here there with clumps of timber trees, anc some instances by curious isolated Kopi and even by singlo crags of granite, 1 start up into the air as though they v monuments carved by man, and not to: stones set by nature ever the grave of c gc::?. On the west this beautiful p'. is horded by the lonely mountaiu ft thc edge or 'Alden it rolls down tows the feverish coast, but bow far it runs to north I cannot say-eight ditys1 journcv, cording to the natives, when it is lost* i measureless swamp. On tho hither side the river the scenery is different. Along edge of its banks, whero the land is flat, green patches of swamp. Then come wido heit of beautiful grass land, cove thick wi di game, and sloping up very ger to tho borders of the forest, which, be; ning at about a thousand feet above level of the plain, clothes the mountain s almost to its crest. In this forest gr great trees, most of them of the yeiiow w< species. Some of these trees are so lo that a bird in their top branches would out of range of an orclinary shotgun. 1 other peculiar thing about them is that tl are, for the most part, covered with a de growth of the Ochelia moss. Out of t moss the natives manufacture a most exe lent deep purple dye, wi-.ii which they st: tanned hides, and also cloth when they h; pen to get any of the latter. I do not th i I ever saw any th ing morb remarkable ti: thc appearance of ono of these mighty tr festooned from top to bottom with traili wreaths of this sad hued moss, in which 1 wind whispers gently as it stirs them. A distance it looks like the gray locks of Titan crowned with bright green leav and here and there starred with tho ri bloom of orchids. "The night of that day when-1 had my lit difference of opinion with Gobo we cami; upon the edge of this great forest, and on t following morning at daylight I started c shooting. As we were short of meat I dot mined to kill a buffalo, of which there W( plenty about, before looking for traocs cf c phants. Not moro than half a mile from ca: we came across a trad like a cart road, e dentlynvule by a great herd of buffo lo whi had passed up at dawn from their feedi ground in tb''1 marshes to spend the'day .thc cool air cf the uplands. This trail I f lowed boldly, for such wind as there w blew straight down the mountain side-th is, from tho direction in which the baili had gone-:to me. About a mile further - tlie forest began to get dense, and the natu cf the trail showed mo that ? must be ck to my game. Another 200 yards, and t bush was sy thick that had it not-been for t trail we could scarcely have got through As it was, Gobo, who carried my eight bc ride (for ? had the .070 cypress ki my ham and the other two mon whom I bad tak with me, showed the very strongest dislike going any further, pointing out that the was 'no room to-run away.' I told them th they need not come unless they liked, b that 1 was certainly going on, ai then, growing ashamed, they came. A other fifty yards, and tho trail open tito a little glade. I knelc down m peeped and peered, but no buffalo could see. Evidently the herd had broken up ho. -I knew that from thc spoor-and pen fcruicd tho opposite bush m little troop! crossed the glade, and choosing one line spoor followed :t for some sixty yards, whi it became clear to me that I vas surround; ty buffalo, and yet so dense was tko covi tn. -t I could not soe one. A fc-w yards to u. left I could neurone rubbing its horns again a ta o, while from my right carno an eec sionaf low throaty grunt which told mc tb I was uncomfortably- near an old bull. crept on toward him with my heart in rr mouth, ai gently as though I were walkin upon eggs .for a bot, lilting every little bit < wood in my path and placing it behind m Lest it should crack and warn tho game. 13 hind me in singlo file came my three retail ors, and 1 don'.- know which of them locke the moot frightened. Presently Gobo touche my leg. 1 looked round, and saw him pom ing slantwise toward the left. I lifted m head a little and peeped over a mass of cree] ors. Beyond tin; cree''crs was a dense bus . of sharp pointed aloes, V>f that kind of wkic the-*eaves project lateraif v, and on thcothc side of the aloes, not fiftee. t paces from us, made out tho horns, neck Vnd tho ridgee the back of a tremendous oki bull. I toq ray eight bore, and getting on my knee prt pared to shoot him through tho neck, takln my chance of cutting his spine.. I had ii. ready covered 3dm as weil as the,doe leave would allow, when he gaven kin?lof sig! and lay down. "I looked round in dismay. What uvas t be done now? I could not see to shoot inn lying down, even if my bullet would t av pierced the intervening aloes, winch va doubtful, and if I stood up he would citl? run away or charge me. I reflected, ant came to the conclusion that tho only thin: to do was to li'- down also, for I did not fancy wandering after other buffalo in that dens? bush. If buffalo lies down, it is clear that he nus* g;.t up again some timo; so it wai only a case of patience -'righting the fight ol .sit down,1 as tho Zulus soy. "Accordingly, I sat down and lighted a pipe, thinking that th.* smell of it migbl reach thc buffalo and mah" him get up. But th" wind was tho wrong way, an 1 it did not. so when it was done I lit another. After? wards I had cause to regr. t 'ha? [>'v-: "Weil, wo squatted like this for bet weet: half and three quarters of an hour, till at last I bega:, to grow he :r< ?ly sick of tho per? formance. It was about as dull a business as the last hour of a comic opera. 1 could bear buffalo snorting and moving -ll pound.'and set; tho i" d beaked tic bird? flying off their barks with a kind of hi-; :;om 'thing like that of an English missal thrush, but I could nor see a single bufTal?. As for my oki bull, I think he must liave slept thy sleep of thc just, for he never even stirred. Just, a:: I was making up my mind that something must be dono tosav? the Situation, my atten? tion wa-; attracted by a curious grinding m iso. At fir.^1 I thought that it must be a ab?i-K? : i ti; - idea I ?rnu; . the r.oi was t yo loud. I shifted myself round mid st-irc? thrungli th? cracks in th ? bush in t-hodircc tion whenei thc sound s erne. 1 t:> con' - and ? Qneo 1 thought that 1 saw'something gray j moving al "?out fifty yards off, but could not j make certa in. i\l?hO>ugh tho grinding noise j still continued, I could see nothing rn?vo. so I ! gave up thinking about it, :J:?'1 ".VC again ; turned attention t > the buffalo. Pre? sently, however; ??niething happened. Sud? denly from about Corty yards away there caw aT?re?!icndous snorting s.'ii;"!. moro like that made by a.-i engine getting a hea vy ii,on lintier way than anything e ,'.,.> in the world. ; " 'By-Jovef I thought, timing round in tho ?ie?*tioii from which the .grinding sound hud J ?me, ".bal lau.-t be a rhinoceros, and ho ?as got our wind.' b*cr, as you fellows fcno tbcro is no mistaking tho sound made by rhinoceros when ho gets wind of you. "Another 'second and there was a in* tremendous' crashing noise. Before I coi think what to do, before I could even j; up, the bush behind me seemed to bu asunder, and there appeared, not eight yai from us, the great horn and wicked twink!i eye of a huge charging rhinoceros. He h winded us or my pipe, I do not know wkk and, after tho fashion of those brutes, h charged up the scent. I could not rise, I coi not even get the gun up-I had no time. 1 th.'?t I was ii bio-to do was to roll over as f out cf the monster's path as the bush won allow. Another second and he was over n bis great bulk towering above me like mountain, and, upon my word, I could i: get his smell out of my nostrils for a wee Circumstances impressed it ou my memo: at least 1 suppofb so. His hot breath bk upon my face, one of his front feet ji missed my hoad, and his hind ono actual trod upon tho loose part of my trouser _ pinched a little bit of my skin. I saw hi pass over me, lying as I was upon my bac and ne_t second I saw something else. _ men were a little behind me, aird therefo straight in the path of the rhinoceros. O of them fiung himself backward into ti bush, and thus avoided him. The seccu with a wild yell, sprang to his feet ai bounded like an India rubber bail right in tho aloe bush, landing well among the spike But the third-it -was 'my friend Gobo-cou not by any means get away. He manag? to gain his feet and .that was ali. TJ rhinoceros was charging with his head loi .His great horn passed between Gobo's leg and feeling something on his nose he jerk; it-up. Away'weut Gobo high into the ai Ho turned a cbmpleto somersault at tl apex of the carve, and as be did so 1 caug! sight of his face. It was gray with -terri and his mouth was wide open. Down 1 came, right on to the great brute's rum and that broke his fall. But luckily for hi the rhinoceros never turned. He craskc straight through the aloe bush, only missie the man who had jumped into ic by about yard Then followed a- complier.:ion.' Ti sleeping buffalo on the farther sido of tl bush, hearing tho noise, sprang to his fee and for a second, not knowing what to d stood still. At that instant thc huge rhin " ceros blundered right on to" him, and gettir his horn beneath his stomach gave him sue a fearful dig that the buffalo was turne over on to his back, while his assailai went a most'amaziug cropper over his ca cass. In another moment, however, he w; up, and, wheeling round to the left, crashe through tho bush down hill toward tho ope country. "Instantly the whole place became clh with alarming sounds. In every direetk troops of snorting buffalo charged throu^ the forest, wild with fright, while tho h jured bull on the farther side of the bush b gan to bellow like a mad thing. I lay qui: still for a moment, devoutly praying tin none of tho flying buffalo would come m .way. Then when the danger lessened I g< on to my feet, shook myself, and looke round. One of my boys, he who had threw himself backward into the bush, was airead half way up a tree; if heaven had been i the top of it he could not have climb* quicker. Gobo was lying close to me" groa: in g vigorously," but as I suspected, quite w. hurt; while from the aloe bush into whic Number Three had bounded like a tenn ball, came a succession of the most piercin yells. 1 looked, and saw that the anfertunai fellow was in a very tight place. A gre: spiko of aloe had run through tho back o? h skin waist belt-, though without piercing h flesh, in such a fashion that it was impossib for him to move, while within six feet e tim the injured buffalo bull, thinking, 2 doubt, that ho was the aggressor, bellowe and ramped to get at him, tearing at tl thick aloes with his great horns. That _ time was-to be lost if I wi^ed tc savo th man's life was very clear. So seizing m cight^bore. which was io: tunate'y unmjurec 1 look a paco to tho left, for the rhinoecrc had enlarged tho hob kl the bush, an aimed at the point of the buffalo's shea ?cr, for cn account of the position I cou! not get a fail* side shot fer the heart. As d-d so I saw that tho i'hiuoeeros had give the bull a tremendous wound in tho stosiacL and that the sheck of the encounter had pu his left hind leg out cf joint at the hip. fired, and the lullet, striking the shonldei broke it and knocked tho buffalo down, knew that he could not get up any nwre, bc cause he was now injured fore and aft, S? notwithstanding his terrific bellows, I scran bled round to where he was. There he laj glaring furiously and tearing ap the soil wit his horns. Stepping np to within two yard of him, I aimed at tho vertebra of his nee ami fired The bullet struck true, and wit .a thud he dropped his great head upon th ground, groaned and died "This little matter having been attende* to, I, with the assistance of Gobo, whe ba< now found his feet, went on to extricate th unfortunate companion from the aioo bush This wo ?found a thorny task, but at last h was diagged forth uninjured, though in ? very' pious and prayerful frame of mind. Hi 'spirit had certainly looked that way,' h said, or lie would now have been dead. As never like to interfere with true piety I di? not venture to suggest that bis spirit ha; deigned to make uso of my eight boro in hi interest. ''Having dispatched this 'boy back to th camp to tell ti ie bearers to come and ca that buffalo np, I bethought me that I owe; that rhinoceros a grudge which I shoal* lovo to repay. So without saying a word o what was in ray mind to Gobo, who was nor more than ever convinced that Fate walke* about, loose in Wambo s country, I just fol lowed on his spoor. He had crashed througl the bush til! he reached tho little glade Then moderating his paco somewhat he ha( followed the glade down its entire length am onco more turned to the right, through til* forest, shaping his course for the open lan*, that lies between the edge of the bush am the river. Having followed him for a mii? or so farther, I found myself quite on th* open. I took out my glar.se.-; and searcbci the plain. About a mile ahead was some thing brown-as I thought, the rhinoceros 1 advanced another quarter of a mile am looked once more; it was not tho rhinoceros but a big ant heap. TU Ls was puzzling, but 1 did liotiike'to give it up, because I ltuev, from his spoor that he must bo somewhere ahead. But as the wind was blowing straight from mc toward tko line that ho had fol lowed, and as rhinoceros can smell you foi a." out a mil'1, it would not, I felt, be safo te foJoiv his spoor any farther. So I made t detour of a mile or more, till I was ueavh opp? ito the ant heap, and then once mon sear?.'.(id ila' plain, lt was no icood; 1 coule see not.'ing ??f him, and was about to givo il up anet; 5art after some oryx I saw i;, the dis tauce, w.heti suddenly, at distance of aboul SOO varch' from the ant heap, and *>n it. farther ?ice, I saw my rhino stand up in : i natch of gt "ass. I * " 'Heave, sf 1 thought to myself, 'lie's oil ! again.' But no: after standing staring for s I minute <>r ixvc. be euee more lay dowa. 'vXow 1 foua 1 myself in a qmmdary. Af von kn.or, a rhin-.'?orris is a very short sighted brute; ir, letti, bissight is asbad a his jc.-nt i.; goo?. Of this fact he is per j fectly ntvare, I-:1.! va always makes th? m -. ; ; of bis riatsral gifts. Fer instance, when h< j lies down he invar.ally does so v.irli hi. j bead down wind Thasifany'"enemy-tresses i his wind, he iii still }>o ab!o to escape <>r at ! taed: him amt if, ou tin other baud. ? lie dan ; . ....!-,.'.. 'ni ?.\ hi r will ai least har (-.-fe ?* i . . * : a?cli.anceoi?viutj it. ?S seone mi -hr, : 1>\ walking deli? iteiy, notedly kick him iq ' like a partridge if only tho advance was i made ir> wiiut, ! ' . .... .viii I '-V. <.:!, th ? point e.-;-. : how on earth should ? I get within sh I ot this rhinoeen-.-?. Af?ci : i?jueli.deliberation f deterrained totryasid ; ad*..a.!---. thiakitig that I might so gc?t a cr<>itcuhig.:i.ttiturle. I first. Gc?bo he>i?Ung on ' toro, coat taris, ant! tko ol?. -r boy on to . Cobos n?H'?cha. I always adopt t:i: plan when stalking lug gu me, for if you fellow ; any: other system thv bearers will ;r* of : line. Wi- g>t t . within :;.>:> yunis i i;;i?t < ..!.::':. and then tho i"-.;l ditlictiltico be I gan. Tho nra^-s liad l>cen SO dosely eaten ! off by game L'iai Lluro wus scarcely any ' cos/cr. Consequently it was neet>snr} Loraj ' on t<> our bands and knees, which m my i case invoiveu layiug aowa lue eiguo UUIU : at every step and then lifting it up again, j However, I wriggled along somehow, j and if it trad not been for Goi>o and his iriend ! uo doubt everything would have gone weil, j But as you have, I dure say, observed a j native out stalking is always of that mind I which is supposed to actuate an ostrich. So I long as his head is hidden he seems to think I that nothing else can be seen. So it was in j this instance: Gobo and tho other boy crept i along on their liands and toes with their ! heads well down, but, though Unfortunately j I did not notice it till too late, bearing tho j fundamental portions of their frames high in j thc air. Now all animals are quite as suspi I ctcus of this end of mankind as they aro of j his face, and of this fact ? soon had a proof, j Just when wc had got within about -Od yards i and I was congratulating myself that I had not had chis long crawl, wita tb? run beating I on the back of my neck like a furnace, ail -for nothing, I heard the hissing notes of tho rhinoceros birds, and up fiew four or five of them from the- brute's back, where they had boen comfortably employed in catching ties. Now this performance on tho part of tho birds is to a rhinoceros what tho word ''cave'' is to a schoolboy; it put3 him on tao qui vivo at once. Eefore tho birds were well in the air I saw tho grass stir. " 'Down you go!' 1 whispered to tho boys, and as I did so thc rhinoceros got up and glared suspiciously around But he could seo nothing: indeed, if wc had been standing up I doubt if he would have seen us at that distance. So be merely gave two or three sniffs and then lay down, his head still down wind, tho birds once more set ding on his back. "But it was clear to" me that bo w*s sleep? ing with ono eye open, and generally in a suspicious and unchristian'frame of mind, anc1 that it was-useless to proceed farther on that stalk; so we quietly withdrewtocon *sider the position and study the ground. Tho results were not satisfactory. There was ab? solutely no cover about except tho ant heap, I which was scmo SOO yards from the rhinoce? ros upon his up wind side. I knew that if I tried to stalk him in front I should fail, and so I should if I attempted to do so from tho farther side; he or the birds would see me. Sp j came to a conclusion: I would go to tho ant heap, which would give him my wind, and? instead of stalking him I would let him stalk me. It was a bold step, and one which I should never advise a hunter to take, but somehow I felt cs though Rhino and I must play the hand out. '.I explained my intentions to the men, who both held up their hands in horror. Their fears for my safety were a little mitigated, -however, when I told them that I did not cx -pect them to come with mc "Gobo breathed a prayer that I might not meot Fate walking about, and the other ono sincerely trusted.that my spirit might look my way when thc rhinoceros charged, and then they both departed to a place of safety. "Talcing my eight bore and half a dozen spare cartridges in my pocket, I made a de? tour, and, reaching the ant heap in safety, lay down. For ? moment the wind had drop? ped, but presently a gent?o puff of air passed over me and blew onto wards the rhinoceros. By tho way, I wonder what it is that smeiis so strong about a man. Is it his body'or his breath! I have never been able to make out, but I saw somewhere tho other day that in the duck decoys the man who is working tho ducks holds a little piece of burning turf bo fore his mouth, and that if he does this they cannot smell him, which looks as though it were the breath. Well, whatever it was about, me that attracted his attention, the rhinoceros soon smelt me, and within half a minute after the puff of wind had passed he was up and turning round to get bis head*up wind There ho stood for a few seconds and sniffed, and then he began to move, first of all at a trot, then, as the scent grew stronger, at a furious gallop. On he came, snorting like a runaway engine, with his tail stuck straight up in the air; if he had seen me lie down there he could not have mado a better line. It was rather nervous work, I can tell you, lying there waiting for his onslaught, for be looked like a mountain of flesh. I do j termined, however, not to fire till I could j plainly seo his eye, for 1 think that rule al? ways gives ono tho right distance for big game. So I rested my rille cn the ant heap and waited for him, kneeling. At last, when he was about forty yards away, I saw that the time had come, and aiming straight for the middle of the chest, I pulled. "Thud went the heavy bullet, and with a tremendous snort over rolled the rhinoceros beneath ito shock, just Uko a sit?t rabbit. But if I had thought that ho was done for .1 was mistake n, for in another second ho was up and coming at me as hard as over, only with hir. head held low. I waited till he waa within ten yards, in tho hope that ho would expose his chest, but he would do nothing of tho soit. So I just had to fire at his head with the left barrel, and take my chance. Weil, as luck would have it, of course the animai put its horn in tho way of the bullet, which cut clean .through it about three inches above the root, and then glanced off into space. After that things got rather serious. Hy gun was empty, and the rhinoc? eros was rapidly arriving-so rapidly, in? deed, that I carno to tho conclusion that I had better make way for him. Accordingly I jumped to my feet and ran to the right as hard as I could go. As I did so, ho arrived full tilt, knocked my friendly ant heap flat, and for thc soeond'time that day went a most magnificent chopper. This gave a few sec "euds' start, and I ran down wind-my word, I ?iid l'un. Unfortunately, however, my modest retreat was observed, and thc rhinoceros, as soon as ho got his .lags .".gain, set to work to run nf ?er me. Now no man on earth can run as fast as an irritated rhinoceros can gallop, and 3 knew that ho must soon catch me up. But having some slight experience of this sort o? thing, I, luckily ?or myself, kept my head, and as I fled I managed to open my rifle, get thc old cartridges cup, and out two fresh ones in. To do this 1 had to steady my paco a little, .and by the time that I had snapped tho rifle to I heard him snelling and thundering away within a. few paces of my ba k. 1 stopped, ami as I did so rapidly cocked thc riflie and slewed around upon mv heel. By this tune the 1 rut,- was within si:: or seven yards of me. bu: luckily las head was up. 1 was ? WW 3^51$ :I <"'?? v? ?y-;-".*? gpsSL?^ pf . , YTV? . , . . j (jJZ^-^'i^Ci * % v' i" //.; \>>v: ' v-, / Vi"*-- ^. -3.;/,y'v>:' S ' 'S \f; "J lifted thu ri??, and fared al kim." snapshot, but tho Indict struck bini in th?, eh-:;:, v? ??iii.! three inches cf the first, and found ?ls way into l i:- lungs. It did u<>t ste: him, however, so all 1 could d<> was to boam' to one side, which I d?t with surprising ac? tivity, and, as I .. blushed past me. fire th< < ; a- r I- ?rr? 1 i. :-> iii : ri.ie. 'I hat did for hint Tue bal! passel in behind thc shoulder ar..' right through his'heart, ile fell overoat' Irk; side, gave ono most awful squeal -; donen pi- s could not have rna . * stich a ni?? -and promptly died, keeping his wicic: Oj.c- V. ide < ?pen -iO the time. "As for me, ? blew my nes?-\ and. going ni to tho rhinoceros, sat on his bead and re fleeted that I had had a capital morning': shooting. [TO rn: coxTtNt'ttn 1 When the President of h'rance i elected it is for seven years, lie ie ecives as salary $l*20jH)0 a year, an? ?00.000 for household expenses, ll Uv s handsomely. Wheo he reine (roui oii?cc, besides the honor wine' wiil attach to his Dame, if he has boci i wiso magistrate, he w.ll bo a rici ?ur stats contemporaries. - Opposed to General Primaries. B?rnv:dl People. Capt. B. II. Tillmau was instructed, j by a unanimous vote of the Edgefield ?county convention, to present to the j State Convention cf the Democratic j party an amendment to ifs constitution, j providing for the nomination of all cao j didntes by primary election. - I If that should go tLroogh it'd 'Good J bye Jobu' to the lower counties As j things now stand B im well's strength j in conventions is equal to EdgeSold's. ! In general elections she has a harder ! fight to make than Eigefield bas, and j she always does ber duty and dou*t brag about it either. If the change should be made Barn? well would have to play second fiddle from now until tho millennium. lier 3,400 enrolled white Democrats would i stand no showing before KdgcSeld's solid phalanx of 4,900 'and several counties in Georgia to hear from.' It seems to be 'a cunningly dJvised fable* to get more power and places for Edgefield, and she's got the lion's share already, and ber appetite seems as insatiable as that of the horse leech. Columbia Record. The libelous publications concerning Governor Richardson present a phase of oar politics which mast excite apprehen? sion as well as disgust in the minds of all good citizens. Our -politics may be pure, in one sense, but wc sorely can? not consider* it clean whenan aspirant to ofiice-and that office the highest in the gift of the people-is made the object of scurrilous attacks upon mere hearsay. Governor Richardson, like other public men, is a prober subject of criticism. Ris public acts and bis pri? vate character are open to discussion. But it does seem that the relations he now sustains to the State and to the Democratic party ought not to make him the target at which the foolish or the malicious may fire at will. Com? mon decency, as well as common fair? ness, ought really to suggest to his cen? sors ?the propriety cf investigating the charges made against his private char? acter and his private life. Happily for the gcod name of the State, there are these in considerable numbers who eau refute the cowardly calumnies that have been uttered against ber Executive. In the face of the recent attacks u?on him, we are sure that Governor Richardson has the sympathy of all the good people of oOUthOaroliua. Th9 Truti of the Matter. Fairfield Xews and Herald. The State canvass was inaugurated solely for the purpose of bringing be? fore the people those candidates who desire their suffrage. Whatever opin? ion one may hold as tc the wisdom of this action, we must all admit that while any One has the right to come before the convention fora nomination it would be in exceedingly bad taste for one who has failed to make the canvass to allow his name to be used. So far Govemor Richardson is the only man who has made thc rounds, and his*speeches have shown him to be a man in whom the people may well trust their interests. The people of South Carolina know his opinion about the different questions agitating the State, and should any other candidate bob up in thc convection we believe he will receive no consider? able fellowing. Governor Richardson is the only candidate for the office of Governor who has publicly announced himself, and any other who may show hiaiseif between now and the conven? tion we trust will immediately be given a seat in the rear, for by such a candi? dacy one plainly shows that he is afraid to meet thc people face to face as the Governor did. Of course anybody can come before the convention for guberna? torial Eon?rs, bet ?ve submit that if the canvass was inaugurated for the pur? pose of letting the people know the views cf candidates, then it follows that they want to vote only for those, who thus give their views There may? be some dark horses, grooming them? selves for thc race. We know not, but we think the people of the Sta-c should be careful in voting for any man whoso sentiments arc not known to them. Astonishing. ?AbbscilU Jltdiuni. We have been reading 'Service A?oat" by Raphael Scmmes of the Confederate Navy. It is a fine produc? tion, written iu graphic style aud full of information. The reputation of Admit al Sommes is world-side. Ye: speaking of him to sever.;! persons thc other day we found that they ha? never heard of him. Ic is astonishing hov; Ht ile our people know about the inci? dents and men of thela-ro \\ ar. Scmmes was an cificer in the old Navy and was among the heroic men who rt?ic-c?ed honor upon thc American name in '.Lc Mexican War. lie was a man of scieuce and thoroughly informed on the 'law of nations.' Me canica the Con? federate Sag with houur upon nearly every high sea in thc world and yet our own people have never beard of h ?ni ft i> not because our peoj Io ?0 not read bu; because they vvas;e their time iii devouring ree tranny novels that m sv ah'i:c: the public They knew all alon; thc fiction of Kider Haggard who has nauseated us with his stories about naked Africans. They are not behind on thc shady romances of Amelie Rives but are sadly wauling ia knowledge cf the merit ed our countrymen who upheld tire honor and glory of the lost cause and took part in the stirring events of that heroic ceriod. > A new course . f reading should bc adopted by the ri>?; g generation from wi;I. h ?.!:. y may learn something clo va ti J g and prob" able. Thtrc arc so many ir.< m bc rs of Con? gress absenting themselves from the two houses now that an indefinite ses? sion con!?! be cor.trrrued by this system of absenteeism. Tho weather ts toe hot for some and others ero looking aiior re-election. Under an old lav. members who absented themselves with? out leave failed to receive pay for th? tune absent, but thc law i.> not nov observed. When, therefore, ir ?C.;S >t0i bot they unceremoniously betake them selves to summer re-borls. ! Co!. P. IT. Nelson has been anani j mously renominated for Solicitor of the ! Fifth Circu?:. He had no opposition. i Charleston is making grand prepara ; tions for the Gala Week, which begins i on November 10'li. . . I It ?3 said that (he ?nti-Riehardsoa delegates to the State convention-aro ! making strenuous efforfs to concentrate, j on Col. B W. KJwards, of darlington, : as a candidate for Goverccr. The ^i.ken Recorder says : Aiken j and Edgefieid two neighboring Counties, j will probably lead all other counties of tiic State in the number o? murder trials hooked for tbs nest tenn of Court to be hold at taeir respective'places. Black measles are reported to be epidemic among the colored people of j Georgetown County along the Saut?e j Rirer. Within a short time thirty j deaths from this disease have occurred j on the plantations ' of ene planter. j Coniptroiler General Yerner, one pf thc brainiest men in the State, will sag gest io the Legislature, at its nest ses? sion, thc passage Gf laws placing the ?nice of COUD ty commissioners directly under the control and direction of. his department of the administration. That is a move in the right direction. At the request of the Board of Jlealthv the Town Council of Marion Ha's order? ed thirty barrels cf rosin to burn at night time ?Gr the purpose of fumigatiag the town. This, says the Star, is done in vjew of several cases of typhoid fever having developed themselves in tfce, past month, and also tb purify the at? mosphere Against other infections. State Chemist Cli2zal, it is stated,-' is about to resign his position -and will enter the laboratory of Dr. O. U. Shep^ ard in Charleston. Dr. Chazal has boen the chemist of thc department of agriculture since 1883, and has render? ed most chicient service, and the state *wili lose in him a. thoroughly capable and popular oficial. Emperor William and his consort will bc crowned King and Queen ot Prussia about October 18. .Hitherto only two kings of Prussia -have been, crowned, Fredrick ?. and William [. ether monarchs having contented them? selves with what was called the Huldi? gung, or thc soiemn declaration el homage from toe representatives of the states of the realm. A large colored club iu LittlojKock, Arkansas, haye cut loose from the Re.^ publican party. Among the resol u tic is adopted was the following : 'That the negro no longer is the political issne la? this country ; that all of his rights are guaranteed to him by the constitution of the -United States, and that his ?atare prosperity depends upon his esra exer? tions and development.' The National Democratic Managers are receiving the most encouraging re? ports from all parts of the country* They have no fears with regard to any of the so called doubtful States, and. are beginning to think they have ft chance of carrying New Haropebirev Iliiuois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Min? nesota. Cleveland is stronger than he. was four years ago, and Thurman ts ft power on the ticket. ' .. , . . The Commissioner of Agricclture will be glad to receive from the formers samples, for exhibition,.of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, rice, potatoes, sugar cane, sorghum, peas and all othar agrl cultural prod nets, as well as cf fruit of all kinds. Such contributions to the; State exhibit can be sept by express at the ezneuse of the Dooarfuieot. and r . should bc plainly addressed to the CJOJ missioner of Agriculture, Columbia,; and marked with the name and addrss of thc contributor. Tragedy at Florence. -. -. i An affray occured at Florence, oe Aug. 25th between Walker Howe,.. colored, and Edward Blount, whick resulted in the death of the former, and a serious, if not fatal, wounding of tho latter. : Thc circumstances which gare rise to. the unfortunate aiTair are as follows:' Thursday \V\ C. ISIount, a brother of. Edward, while acting as constable, was in pursuit of one Jim Muldrow, for. whose arrest ho held a warrant, under a charge of larc ny. Suspecting that tho defendant was concealed in the house of Howe, the constable, entered thc same with rho viol* of^iitahing the arrest. Tb?,-which if seem? was dene in his abs- nee. io incensed rho giant Howe that he >?;CT? Vengeance against thc constable. . r?* v c an t i a:e carrying openly a hugaV'revolve,r afc?l threatening to sisy him * '.-.v ^-uturday Ki. Blount wns standing on H ist ?v?hs street when the maddened cesp<-rado approached him and niistak-. ing him i; is supposed, for his brother, said, "Liamn you, i've got you now!* a: i simultaneously fired upon him, the thc bali :a::i::?; e?Ject in his light groin. A- this time Howe, seeing a policeman close by, attempted to run. when, though desperately wounded, young Bicuu? r ulr. ii out his pisto! and tired atv. bi* assailant three rimes The last shot penetrated Howe's heart, kilting him instantly. -. (.real rxcitcment r?re vailed for a while, but ivuet is now e??ected, and it is ho; ed no further trouble will emanate from the tragedy. The coroner is pre? paring to hoi 1 r.;: inquest over t?c oody of 1{ ?we, ll',- uni is in :i critical con? ditio!:. T'ii? Stale Game Law. Tut following"schedule of the dates tween which ?o may be killed in South Carol na. will be of interest tO: s-1 ui.-n-vti g- tn. rai ly. It z\>o gives tao cctistic: tn which exceptions arc made: .\ .-. For thc counties of Clarendon,^ Georgetown, Collctou., Williamsburg, Marlboro, Kershaw. Korry, ?i?rHugton, Marion, and Berkeley, from $e first of. August to the i.-? of l-'eb'y : foi tho res! o? inc State, including. Charleston, county, from thc lit ot Sept. to the 1st of Feb'y. - , Turkeys, partridges, quail, woodcock,^ pheasants- rum ?Sic l.-t of Nov. to tb? first of April. Doves-From the lat of August to ibo 1st cf .Luvli.- ColuYtJjig Berti**