ABSTRACT
In East Africa the Tcifaru is by no means so dangerous as either the elephant or buffalo. Rhinos will frequently charge a caravan, when it passes to windward of them, but they rarely make a vicious assault, and are generally contented with scattering the porters in every direction, and keeping straight on their course, grunting and puffing like a runaway engine. When I was bringing down the Sudanese, a rhino charged the rear of the caravan, and bore down on a Sudanese woman. Never, I presume, having seen or heard of such a beast before, she was panic-stricken at the sight, and pitching her baby into a bush, fled with shrieks into the jungle. She was, however, unharmed, and came back and gathered up the baby later on.
