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photographed it and measured it carefully. It was a cow, 

 considerably smaller than the bull of the other day and the 

 thinnest I had ever shot, though its horns did not seem as if it 

 were extraordinarily old. Its front horn only measured 26^ 

 inches, though, owing no doubt to the very small size of the 

 animal itself, it looked much longer. The porters took meat 

 in spite of its emaciation, while I cut off the horns and buried 

 the skull, having avoided chopping the bone at all. 



Dead Rhinoceros Cow of the Small Variety {Rhinoceros biconiis). 



(From a Photograph liy the Author.) 



There was here much stunted bush, though not thick ; the 

 country was very flat and the soil like dried mud, which it 

 undoubtedly is, namely, lacustrine deposit ; and all along this 

 part were many tall chimney-like ant-heaps. The usual kinds of 

 game were observed, with more Waller's gazelle than I had seen 

 anywhere. For a day or two past I had noticed that the lake 

 water was getting fresher and at the same time less clear, and 

 now it had lost its salt taste altogether and become muddy, 

 looking quite red out to sea. This was of course caused by 



