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THE KEITLOA, OR SLOAN'S RHINOCEROS. 



The KEITLOA can readily be recognized by the horns, which are of considerable length, 

 and nearly equal to each other in measurement. This is always a morose and ill-tempered 

 animal, and is even more to be dreaded than the borele, on account of its greater size, 

 strength, and length of horn. The upper lip of the Keitloa overlaps the lower even more 

 than that of the borele ; the neck is longer in proportion, and the head is not so thickly 

 covered with wrinkles. At its birth the horns of this animal are only indicated by a 

 prominence on the nose, and at the age of two years the horn is hardly more than an 

 inch in length. At six years of age it is nine or ten inches long, and does not reach 

 its full measurement until the lapse of considerable time. 



The Keitloa is a terrible dangerous opponent, and its charge is so wonderfully swift, 

 that it can hardly be avoided. One of these animals that had been wounded by 

 Mr. Andersson, charged suddenly upon him, knocked him down, fortunately missing her 

 stroke with her horns, and went fairly over him, leaving him to struggle out from between 



KEITLOA, OR SLOAN'S RHINOCEROS. -Rhinoceros Keitloa. 



her hind legs. Scarcely had she passed than she turned, and made a second charge, 

 cutting his leg from the knee to the hip with her horn, and knocking him over with a 

 blow on the shoulder from her fore-feet. She might easily have completed her revenge 

 by killing him on the spot, but she then left him, and plunging into a neighboring thicket, 

 began to plunge about and snort, permitting her victim to make his escape. In the 

 course of the day the same beast attacked a half-caste boy who was in attendance on 

 Mr. Andersson, and would probably have killed him had she not been intercepted by the 

 hunter, who came to the rescue with his gun. After receiving several bullets, the Rhi- 

 noceros fell to the ground, and Mr. Andersson walked up to her, put the muzzle of 

 the rifle to her ear, and was just about to pull the trigger, when she again leaped to her 

 feet. He hastily fired and rushed away, pursued by the infuriated animal, which, how- 

 ever, fell dead just as he threw himself into a bush for safety. The race was such a 

 close one, that as he lay in the bush he could touch the dead Rhinoceros with his rifle, 

 so that another moment would probably have been fatal to him. 



