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In the rainy season you will scarcely come across a 

 single rhinoceros on the mountain-plateau ; they are then 

 scattered about the velt. But in the dry season it is 

 almost impossible to penetrate into the thickets of that 

 hill country, as the description of this stalking expedition 

 of mine shows very plainly. I should never have dreamt 

 that it was such a veritable rhinoceros-preserve ; but tor 

 well-read zoologists this information will not be in the 

 least surprising, for they are all conversant with the 

 descriptions ot Thomson, Count Teleki, Chanler, Donald- 

 son-Smith, and, to close the list, von Hohnel (who was 

 attacked by a rhinoceros and badly injured). These and 

 many other travellers came across almost incredible 

 numbers of rhinoceroses in certain districts. Everything 

 here recounted by me of the Donje-Erok applies to all 

 the corresponding mountain-ranges of the Masai-Nyika 

 and Ndasekera, and the Donje-Erok la Matumbato is 

 by no means especially rich in " faros." 



How quickly, though, these conditions may alter is 

 most strikingly exhibited by the fact that so keen an 

 observer as Professor Yolkens never came in contact with 

 a rhinoceros, in a stay of almost two years on Kilimanjaro, 

 although his botanical excursions took him all round the 

 mountain. 1 Some years before his time the first com- 

 mandant of Moshi, Mr. Eltz, had killed two-horned 

 rhinoceroses by scores. And since then the Government 

 Askaris had snared this great wild beast for years in their 

 hunting expeditions. 



1 Volkens, Der Kilimandjaro. 

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