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eight different kinds ot" nianiinals, representing most of the African species 

 with the exception of the ek^phant. That we were unable to bring back any 

 elephants was due to the fact that large males with tusks exceeding sixty 

 pounds in weight were very scare?. We saw three or four hundred elephants 

 but not a single male large enough to shoot. Even on going to the Mount 

 Elgon country, a region formerly noted for its great herds, and after re- 

 maining there a full month witli the direct intention of securing specimens 

 of bull elephants, we had to give it up, finding none large enough to furnish 

 an excuse for killing. We did secure in the Elgon country, however, 

 very fine specimens of the Sing-Sing waterbuck, some of the heads measur- 

 ing thirty-two inches in length; and to the north of the Uganda railway 

 in the direc ^ tion of Mount Kenia, we secured vmusually good specimens 

 of the Af ^B rican buffalo, the largest with a spread of horns of forty- 

 five inch ^H es. The country along the Uganda railway about Simba 



jMalc black rhiiioci-ros iiiotc tin- curve of the horns and llicir thickness) sliot l)y K. 

 Hubert l.itchliehl. Kliino horns do not consist of Ixme or horn Iml of bristles closely 

 compressed, and they are not connected with the skull. .\ccordinK to African siijjersti- 

 tions, golilcts made from rhino horns Innc been Ihouglit to have power to fiive health to 

 him who drinks, even to tell him liy a mysterious efTervescence if any poi.son lurk in the 

 draught 



