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of the sun, or the kind of mud they may have been rolHng 

 in last, and partly, no doubt, to the age and sex of the 

 animal. In exemplification of this I may mention that I 

 have watched a bull of R. simus trotting past in the full 

 glare of the mid-day sun, and it has appeared to me almost 

 white, while after following the same animal up, and finding 

 it feeding with the long shadows of evening on it, its colour 

 has then seemed to be, as it really is, a deep brown. 



These four species I would class as follows : — R. 

 hicornis, otherwise known as the borele, or upetyane ; 

 R. Keitloa, the keitloa of the west, and umkombe tovote 

 of the east ; R. simus, the mohohu of the Bechuanas, 

 and the umkave, or umkombe woqobo of the Amazulu 

 and Amatonga tribes ; and last of all the Kulumane, 

 which, though I claim for it the position of a distinct 

 species, and believe that I am able to fully prove that 

 claim, has not as yet received a scientific name or recog- 

 nition from naturahsts. There is yet another species 

 — the R. Oswellii, or kabaoba, — and if indeed it is not 

 merely a variety of R. simus, as I am inclined to believe, 

 it would follow that there are five kinds to be found on 

 the continent. 



The first two mentioned are those known as the "black," 

 the latter as the " white." Of these R. hicornis (though 

 why it should distinctively be named the " two-horned," 

 when all African rhinoceros are equally so, is not very 

 clear) is the smallest, most savage, and most to be dreaded. 

 I consider it the most dangerous of all African game, and 

 thousands of anecdotes might be related of its morose and 

 vicious disposition, similar to the one already mentioned 

 of its scattering my camp-fire. 



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