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the species you must take the shot when the fore- 

 leg is forward. In any event, it is difficult to score, 

 for the rhino's body is powerfully made and closely 

 ribbed. There is also the neck shot for the spine 

 —not easy to locate. Of course, every hunter of 

 real experience has made easy kills of dangerous 

 game, and it is only the ignorant who draw con- 

 clusions from half experience by themselves or of 

 others. Like elephants, rhino sleep during the 

 heat of the day, hidden in dense cover, and feed 

 during the cool of the early morning and evening, 

 and during the night. Their sight is poor, but 

 their sense of smell and hearing very acute. 

 Though sullen and vicious, I doubt if a rhino in- 

 tends charging home every time he starts up wind 

 on the strange scent which has come to him. Often 

 it is, I have grown to believe, merely his means of 

 investigating, in the absence of good eyesight. I 

 have seen him turn aside on such a " charge " 

 when not hit, and other hunters report similar 

 observations. At the same time the rhino's ill 

 temper makes him an uncertain creature to deal 

 with and an unsafe one with his swift trot to 

 allow too close for purely experimental purposes. 

 The government-protected, square-lipped, Af- 

 rican rhino, of which very few are remaining, is 

 the largest— specimens nearly seven feet high at 

 the shoulders have been reported— and next to this 



