^ Rhinoceros-hunting 



such occasions even the lightest covering hampers you, 

 and perhaps endangers your life. 



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Countless thousands of two-horned rhinoceroses are 

 still to the good in East Africa. Yes, countless thousands ! 

 Captain Schlobach tells us that he would encounter as 

 many as thirty in one day in Karragwe in 1903 and 1904. 

 Countless also are the numbers of horns which are secured 

 annually for sale on the coast. But how much longer 

 will this state of things continue ? And the specimens 

 of the white rhinoceros of South Africa which adorn 

 the museum in Cape Town and the private museum of 

 Mr. W. Rothschild (and which we owe to Coryndon 

 and Varndell) are not more valuable than the specimens 

 also to be found in the museums of the "black" rhino- 

 ceroses still extant in East Africa. 



This view of the matter will perhaps receive attention 

 fifty or a hundred years hence. 



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