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a Rhinoceros exists in their country. They recognised at once 

 pictures of the common two-horned rhinoceros, and named it 

 " kowuru." This is a very interesting question to be examined 

 into in the future. It seems strange that the rhinoceros should 

 be absent from the open country of West Africa at the back of 

 the forest, since it is found so abundantly in the Eastern Sudan, 

 in Eastern, South-western ' and South Central Africa. But 

 although its existence is constantly asserted or reported by 



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Arabs, Hausas, or Mandingos in the regions of West Central 

 Africa between Lake Chad and the Upper Niger, no vestige of a 

 rhinoceros has ever been sent to Europe or America from those 

 regions. Until therefore some direct evidence of its existence can 

 be laid before us we must consider the question " not proven." 



' The author saw a rhinoceros killed in the southern part of Angola (Lower 

 Kunene River) when with Axel Eriksson in 1882 (Lord Mayo's expedition). The 

 rhinoceros ranges north from the Zambezi into the southern part of the Congo 

 Basin. 



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