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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2568, 31 July 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

MR. ROOSEVELT AMD THE RHINOCEROS. Cable messages from Nairobi, in British East Africa, state that Mr. Roosevelt staked his life on his coolness and unerring aim in the presence of a furious charge by a huge rhinoceros. The ex-Prcsidont fired a bullet into the rhinoceros’ brain when it was fourteen paces from him, and rushing forward like a wild engine. The bullet was fatal, but so fierce was the dash of tho great rhino, that it plunged on almost to the feet of Mr. Roosevelt before. toppling over dead. This rhinoceros was encountered while the party was making a short hunting trip from camp. The native beaters had made a wide flanking movcment, and a warning signal soon told the hunters to be on the alert. Within a few moments the stalked animal gave its own warning, and, with furious snorts, broke through tho underbrush. electrifying Mr. Roosevelt, who expected tho -marry to be his sixth lion. The rhinoceros came out of the clearing at a point about 100 yards from Mr. Roosevelt, and immediately charged upon the party. Realising tho danger that beset "Bwana Turnbo” (tho strong fat man), as the natives have christened the former "President, others of the party were on tho point of firing, bnt Mr. Roosevelt held them in check while he stood immediately in the path of the oncoming infuriated beast. With wonderful coolness, such as no African hunter ha« ever exceeded, Mr. Roosevelt took deliberate aim and fired. He waited until a second sbot would kavo been impossible, but a second shot was. not necessary, as the first had pierced the animal’s brain. It was ‘ ‘Bwana Turn bo’s ' forty-filth kill, and, says the, cable message, ‘‘he rejoiced like a schoolboy.”

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