Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis

"Pursuit Remembered", cont'd. The party (the author, Pop, Mama, Droopy and M'Cola) arrive in a part of the country Droopy says will be good for hunting. The author looks at the landscape and complains bitterly that hunting will be difficult, but later that night "after...a few drinks" he and the rest of the party think everything will be fine.

Droopy leads the party in search of rhino. As they travel through beautiful scenery, the author (with his sense of smell trained by hunting elk back home in North America) smells a nearby rhino and almost shoots it, but at the last moment Droopy realizes it's a cow and her calf and pulls down the author's gun. When it gets to the hottest part of the day, the party stops for lunch and a rest, knowing that the animals they're pursuing...