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them, on the neck itself, and has no connection with the 

 spinal column. The square-mouthed rhinoceros of South 

 Africa is always described as being very much bigger than 

 the common prehensile-lipped African rhinoceros, and as 

 carrying much longer horns. But the square-mouthed 

 rhinos we saw and killed in the Lado did not differ from 

 the common kind in size and horn development as much 

 as we had been led to expect; although on an average they 

 were undoubtedly larger, and with bigger horns, yet there 

 was in both respects overlapping, the bigger prehensile- 

 lipped rhinos equalling or surpassing the smaller individuals 

 of the other kind. The huge, square-muzzled head, and 

 the hump, gave the Lado rhino an utterly different look, 

 however, and its habits are also in some important respects 

 different. Our gun-bearers were all East Africans, who had 

 never before been in the Lado. They had been very scep- 

 tical when told that the rhinos were different from those they 

 knew, remarking that "all rhinos were the same"; and the 

 first sight of the spoor merely confirmed them in their be- 

 lief; but they at once recognized the dung as being dif- 

 ferent; and when the first animal was down they examined 

 it eagerly and proclaimed it as a rhinoceros with a hump, 

 like their own native cattle, and with the mouth of a hip- 

 popotamus. 



On the way to camp, after the death of this bull rhino, 

 I shot a waterbuck bull with finer horns than any I had yet 

 obtained. Herds of waterbuck and of kob stared tamely 

 at me as I walked along; whereas a little party of harte- 

 beest were wild and shy. On other occasions I have 

 seen this conduct exactly reversed, the hartebeest being 

 tame, and the waterbuck and kob shy. Heller, as usual, 



