Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — THE SCRAP BOOK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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WILD RIDE ON A RHINO.

Quentin Grogan, the big game hunter, who acted as guide for Colonel Roosevelt in Uganda and led him to the spot where he bagged his white rhinos, has just returned from a trip to s he Congo that was successful in ad ' nture if npt otherwise. Grogan went out in eearch of a pair of live white rhinos, no specimen of which is in captivity. He had tough luck right through. Hippo Bay, where Roosevelt got his rhinos,"was empty, and Grdgan wandered up to Regaf. Here he got in touch with a youngster, but missed getting a rope about its leg. In a mad endeavor to capture the brute, Grogan flung himself at it, grabbed it by the ears and mounted its back. He is probably the only than who has ever ridden a live white rhino. The beast screamed with terror and dashed at a wonderful gait across country. Frightened though the rhino was, it didn’t forget its native sense and made straight for a clump of thorn bushes into which it dashed. Grogan was literally torn off its back. His face and body were lacerated and his feelings, also, at losing the object of his trip. Now he is in a more philosophic mood and says; "Never mind, I had a darned tine ride.” —Baltimore American.