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yards of telegraph-wire round their necks. The line to Rejaf 

 is perpetually out of order through them and the elephants. 

 The latter abound. We saw many herds, but had to avoid 

 them, so as to get the white rhinoceros. 



"The Bahr-el-Ghazal is a hard country to work terribly 

 hard. A crawl of 50 yards on the ' iron-stone ' takes more 

 out of you than 300 yards in British East ; and the game is 

 wild, the giant eland particularly so. 



WHITE RHINOCEROS (RHINOCEROS SIMUS) 



" This great pachyderm is far from plentiful in the Bahr-el- 

 Ghazal much less so than is the case farther south in the 

 erewhile Lado Enclave. Dur- 

 ing my trek right across the 

 whole Bahr - el - Ghazal pro- 

 vince in 1913 I only saw 

 three. That small experience 

 is too little to judge by, but 

 it left an impression that the 

 white rhino is not so aggres- 

 sive nor so liable to sudden 

 outbursts of fury such as we 

 well know characterise his 

 'black' cousin in East and 

 Central Africa. Here the 

 local natives exhibit little or 

 no fear of the rhinoceros. 

 Both the spoor and the sign of this species much resemble that 

 of elephant. My specimen I secured by following the spoor 

 from a water-hole where the beast had wallowed and, during 

 the stalk, noticed that its method of feeding was entirely by 

 grazing and not by browsing on trees and thorns as we see the 

 black rhinoceros do. The difference in bulk was also very 

 marked, the white rhinoceros appearing enormous I should 

 say nearly twice the cubic measurement of the other." 



A feature in the anatomy of the white rhinoceros merits 

 mention. In the skull of this animal (Rhinoceros simus) there 

 occurs immediately in front of the eyes a sort of double bony 



WHITE RHINOCEROS. 

 (Note the square mouth.) 



