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fifty years. To-day the country with its railroad line and government 

 road and its large population of colonists is no longer the place that it was 

 for finding large game. The Third African expedition of the American 

 Museum had received permission to kill four rhinos and three buffalo in 

 British East Africa — in the wilderness, not in one of the game preserves — 

 but felt considerable indecision as to the right locality for the work. Even 



Some of the wild men of the Cheringani Dorobo who worked for the expedition. None 

 of these natives had met a white man before the leader of the expedition went among them 

 in 1908 when on a previous visit to Africa 



three or four years ago good specimens of African mammals could be ob- 

 tained along the Uganda railroad. They have now disappeared not only 

 from there but also from many of the localities farther afield. Such is the 

 case in regard to rhinos in the region south of the Uganda railroad and west 

 of the Guaso Nviro River near the German borderland. Rhinos are found 



