with rankin 's encouragement or no , blincoln - evidently feeling that , as he had originally been offered the egg , he had some right now to try again - did make an attempt ; he was a former rifleman , and while they were encamped took one of the guns and went out , in a surreptitious manner , to return with a fresh-killed cassowary , which he brought back and offered to kulingile while nearly all the rest of the camp were sleeping .