AYith Flashlight and Rifle -* 



The white rhinoceros, practically exterminated from 

 South Africa in recent years, and now almost extinct it 

 still exists near Lado had still longer horns. Here 

 are two measurements taken, like the foregoing, from 

 Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game : 



WHITE RHINOCEROS (R. simus). 



Owner. Locality. Length. 



Col. \V. Gordon Gumming . South Africa 62^ in. 



British Museum ... ,, 56.7 ,, 



The white rhinoceros is the largest mammal after 

 the elephant to be found on any part of the earth. 

 Scarce half a century ago the species was still so 

 numerous that Anderson, the English sportsman, was 

 able to kill about sixty of them in the course of a few 

 months in the neighbourhood of the Orange River and 

 the Zambesi. 



I myself secured one rhinoceros-horn in Zanzibar 

 which is about fifty-four inches long, and the horns of 

 four rhinoceroses which I shot measure 86, 76, 72, 62^ 

 centimetres ; the others are much shorter. 



The rhinoceros is particularly dangerous in dense 

 brushwood, whether on the velt among the sueda- 

 bushes, which grow so thickly, or on the high plateaux 

 amidst the most impenetrable vegetation, which grows 

 up in the clearings and ridges, in between the long, 

 lichen-grown trunks of the trees in the woods. 



The, animal is in the habit of making any number of 

 homes for itself, used alternately, upon the smaller hills 

 of about 6,000 feet high, in the dense thickets. He 

 chooses generally those formed by the shrubs, into which 



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