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them, and I have no doubt, counting misses and badly- 

 aimed shots, that there were over fifty bullets expended 

 altogether on the three head ; yet I have seen three rhino- 

 ceroses killed with three single shots by some of these 

 very men. 



E. Keitloa is a species of which I have personally only 

 killed one specimen, and, though I have seen twenty or 

 thirty pair of horns that were either killed by my acquaint- 

 ances or by my own men, I have but rarely met with it 

 alive, and that chiefly far inland of the Portuguese settle- 

 ment of Lorenco Marquis. It exists, however, more plen- 

 tifully to the north than to the north-east or east, and has 

 been met with by other travellers in considerable numbers, 

 whose testimony would seem to point to the fact of its 

 being savage and morose in disposition, one very noted 

 sportsman (Andersson) going so far as to consider it more 

 dangerous than R. hicornis. Such, however, is neither my 

 own experience nor that of the other hunters, both Euro- 

 pean and native, whom I have consulted on the subject ; 

 all accounts going to prove that it bears no comparison 

 whatever in this respect to the dreaded upetyane ; and 

 I should feel inclined to place it on a par in disposition 

 with the kulumane. 



The one that I killed I was fortunate enough to finish 

 with a single shot, though under circumstances that with 

 R. hicornis would certainly have insured a charge. The 

 previous night had been a very disturbed one from the 

 continued roaring of two Hons which had taken up their 

 abode in the same thicket in which we had camped, and 

 which had so far prevented me from sleeping that had it 

 not been for the necessity of hunting to procure food, I 



