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range and long range, over our shoulders, and 

 through our cameras, every way whereby a con- 

 scientious lover of life and nature can study a 

 prominent member of the Mammalia. We called 

 the place Rhino Park because the country looks like 

 a beautiful park studded with splendid trees and 

 dotted with rhinos. 



When I went to Africa I was equipped with the 

 following fund of knowledge concerning the rhi- 



A Morning Walk on the Tana River 



noceros : First, that he is familiarly called "rhino" 

 by the daring hunters who have written about him ; 

 second, that he is a member of the Perissodactyl 

 family, whose sole representatives are the horse, 

 the rhino, and the tapir; third, that he savagely 

 charges human beings who write books about their 

 thrilling adventures in Africa, and, finally, that he 

 looks like a hang-over from the pterodactyl age. 

 The books and magazine stories that have come out 

 since Mr. Roosevelt made African hunting the 



