ACCOUNT OF THE MUSEUM’S CONGO EXPEDITION 169 
unusual in a white man’s eyes that no adequate preparation could be 
made. 
When the report of January 5 was sent, the active work on heavy 
game had not commenced. The expedition was on the point of en- 
gaging experienced native hunters and the very keenest pygmies to be 
found. It was in the district of large game where the trumpeting of 
elephants could be heard from the camp, and elephants’ trails — deep 
round footprints “as if someone for amusement had gone about sinking 
a bucket into the mud and pulling it out again’’ — were common along 
the river and in the banana planta- 
tions. For the most part heavy 
game in Central Africa is protected 
by law and is relatively abundant, 
not near extinction as in South 
Africa. The square-mouthed or so- 
called white rhinoceros, however, 1s 
not common anywhere in Africa. It 
is practically extinct in South Africa, 
is rare in the narrow strip of country 
west of the Nile— the Lado of Cen- 
tral Africa 

and is wholly unknown 

in all other parts of the continent. 
The square-mouthed rhinoceros is MAMBUTI PYGMY, AVAKUBI 
on the average larger than the com- Congo pygmies, having the height 
mon African rhinoceros, hasa double —_ of ten-year-old children, are shy, vin- 
dictive when angered, keen in hunting. 
pS : Many photographs and 24 measure- 
a head that differs wholly in shape ments of this pygmy have been taken, 
from that of the common form, one _ besides a plaster cast of his face 
striking point of difference being a 
hump in the region of the neck and 
square upper lip instead of a pointed overhanging ‘one. 
Also, the expedition was in the land of the okapi, with the hope of 
getting specimens for a group in the Museum. Less than ten years ago 
the world was stirred by the discovery of a new animal in the northern 
part of the Congo forest, okapi, the natives called it. Stanley had 
gained from the dwarfs some hint of it. He thought it related to the 
horse, in spite of the anomaly of a grass-eating animal living in forests. 
When actually seen, the okapi was found very wonderful: a shy animal, 
standing as high as a stag, and feeding on the leaves and twigs of trees, 
