284 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
AFRICAN RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros bicornis). 
Swahil: Name— Javu.” Somali Name— Weel.” 
In many parts of the Dark Continent the Black Rhinoceros is still 
abundant, although, like most of the other large mammals, it is now 
difficult to find south of the Zambesi. The rough and difficult country 
between the Victoria Falls and the Zambesi mouth is perhaps the 
likeliest place to find Rhznoceros bicornis at the present day in the south 
of the Continent. The interior of Somaliland, the country between that 
territory and Lake Rudolph, and the adjacent regions, probably hold 
more black rhinoceros at the present day than any other part of Africa. 
This rhinoceros is not a difficult beast to kill, and although more active, 
more alert, and therefore more dangerous than its huge cousin, 2. simus, 
hunters, since the introduction of arms of precision, have found little 
difficulty in accomplishing its downfall. Forty years ago, in South 
Africa, English and Dutch hunters often killed half a dozen of these 
animals to their own rifle in a night’s shooting at a desert pool or 
water-pit. 
HEIGHT at shoulder of biggest bull, 5 feet 8 inches. ) (F.C. Selous) 
5 .; cow, 5 feet 2 inches. | 
