The Land Of Footprints By Stewart Edward White








 -  Flies
wouldn't bother you either, if you had a skin two inches thick.
So there they stood, inert and solid - Page 89
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Flies Wouldn't Bother You Either, If You Had A Skin Two Inches Thick. So There They Stood, Inert And Solid As Two Huge Brown Rocks, Save For The Deep, Wicked Twinkle Of Their Little Eyes.

Yes, we were close enough to "see the whites of their eyes," if they had had any:

And also to be within the range of their limited vision. Of course we were now stalking, and taking advantage of all the cover.

Those rhinoceroses looked to me like two Dreadnaughts. The African two-horned rhinoceros is a bigger animal anyway than our circus friend, who generally comes from India. One of these brutes I measured went five feet nine inches at the shoulder, and was thirteen feet six inches from bow to stern. Compare these dimensions with your own height and with the length of your motor car. It is one thing to take on such beasts in the hurry of surprise, the excitement of a charge, or to stalk up to within a respectable range of them with a gun at ready. But this deliberate sneaking up with the hope of being able to sneak away again was a little too slow and cold-blooded. It made me nervous. I liked it, but I knew at the time I was going to like it a whole lot better when it was triumphantly over.

We were now within twenty yards (they were standing starboard side on), and I prepared to get my picture. To do so I would either have to step quietly out into sight, trusting to the shadow and the slowness of my movements to escape observation, or hold the camera above the bush, directing it by guess work.

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