ON THE TANA RIVER, THE HOME OF THE RHINO. THE 

 TIMID ARE FRIGHTENED, THE DANGEROUS KILLED, 

 AND OTHERS PHOTOGRAPHED. MOVING PIC- 

 TURES OF A RHINO CHARGE 



DOWN on the Tana River the rhinos are more com- 

 mon than in any other known section of Africa. 

 In two weeks we saw over one hundred perhaps 

 two hundred of them so many, in fact, that one 

 of the chief diversions of the day was to count 

 rhinos. One day we counted twenty-six, another 

 day nineteen, and by the time we left the district 

 rhinos had become such fixtures in the landscape as 

 to cause only casual comment. Perhaps there were 

 some repeaters, ones that were counted twice, but 

 even allowing for that there were still some left. 

 We saw big ones and little ones, old ones and young 

 ones, and middle-aged ones; ones with long ears, 

 short horns, double horns, and single horns; black 

 ones and red ones in fact, all the kinds of rhinos 

 that are resident in British East Africa. One had 

 an ear gone and another had a crook in his tail. If 

 we had stayed another week we might have got out 

 a Tana River Rhino Directory, with addresses and 

 tree numbers. We studied them fore and aft, from 

 in front of trees and from behind them, from close 



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