Ix\ STORMY WEATHER THE NVTKA COUNTRY OFTEN REMINDED ME OF WILD 

 REGIONS IN NORTH GERMANY 



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Catching a Young Rhinoceros 



THEN some one will succeed, it is to I)e h()|)ecl, 

 in brini^ing' back alive a young rhinoceros from 

 German East Africa. That will be a red-letter day for 

 our Zoological Gardens "—thus wrote; my friend Dr. L. 

 Heck in 1896, in his b()(,)k Ihc Auinia/ Kiiiodom. 



In th(; same year I trod African soil lor the hrst time. 

 Many illusions, derived from the too optimistic tone of 

 our colonial literature, were soon to be dispelled there, 

 not the; least of them being notions about the practicabilitv 

 of getting hold of living specimens of the wild lite of the 

 region. 



Many efforts have l:)een made, both in (icrmaii and 

 IJritish h.ast Africa, to bring back ali\-e to I^urope either 

 a young rhinoceros or a young (elephant. While no one 

 has \et succeedc'd in the latter enterprise, 1 succeeded 

 in the former, Ijut only on my lt)urth e.\j)editi()n — the third 



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