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of the Hamran Arabs still survive. Their country 

 lay beyond the western frontier of Abyssinia, where, 

 even at the present day, a good deal of game is still 

 to be found. 



The flesh of the elephant is coarse and not very 

 palatable to European sportsmen. It was once the 

 fashion to speak of the foot, baked for many hours, 

 as a particular delicacy. This mass of glutinous 

 matter does not, however, at the present time, appear 

 to recommend itself to the palate or the stomachs of 

 English hunters. The heart is undoubtedly the best 

 part of the elephant's anatomy for eating purposes. 

 Roasted over the embers of the camp fire, this part 

 of the animal will be found excellent eating, tender 

 and well-tasted. 



THE RHINOCEROS 



Two kinds of rhinoceros have up to the present 

 time been identified in Africa. These are the so- 

 called white rhinoceros, with which I will deal first, and 

 the common or black rhinoceros, the latter of which is 

 still fairly common in many parts of the eastern and 

 central regions of the continent. The white rhino- 

 ceros, which had always, apparently, a much more 

 restricted habitat, is now, on the contrary, close upon 

 the verge of extinction. 



THE WHITE RHINOCEROS (Rhinocerus simus\ 

 Chukuru of the Bechuanas, Umhofo of the Matabele, 

 sometimes called Burchell's, or the square-mouthed 

 rhinoceros, is, one may almost say was, next to the 



