With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



Tli(' wliite rhinoceros, practically exterminated from 

 South Africa in recent years, and now almost extinct^it 

 still exists near Lado — had still Ioniser horns. Here 

 are two measurements taken. lik(^ the ioregoin^-, from 

 Rowland W^ard's Records of J^ig Game: 



W'nriE Rhinoceros {R. siniits). 



Owner. Locality. Length. 



Col. \V. (lordon Cuinming . South Africa 62^ in. 



British Museum ... n >> 56.7 ,, 



The white rhinoceros is the largest mami^aal after 

 the elephrUit to be found on any part of the earth. 

 Scarce halt a century ago the species was still so 

 numerous that Anderson, the English sportsmaai, was 

 able to kill about sixty ot them in the course of a few 

 months in the neighbourhood of the Orange River and 

 the Zaml)esi. 



1 myself secured one rhinoceros-horn in Zanzibar 

 which is about fifty-four inches long, and the horns of 

 tour rhinoceroses which I shot measure 86, 76, 72, 62^ 

 centimetres ; the others are much shorter. 



The rhinoc(.'n)s is particularly dangerous in dense 

 brusliwood, wlu;ther on the \clt among the sueda- 

 bush(;s, which grow so thickly, or on the high plateaux 

 amidst the most impc;netraljl(! xc-getation, which grows 

 up in the clearings and ridgc^s, in ])etw(MMi the; long, 

 lichen -grown trunks ot tlu; trees in the woods. 



The animal is in the; habit of making an\ number of 

 homes lor itself, used alternately, u|)on the smaller hills 

 of about 6,000 feet high, in the dense thickets. He 

 chooses generalK those formed b\ the shrul)s, intcj whicdi 



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