90 ZOOLOGICAL 
artists of many lands, still delight 
those eager for quaint trinkets. 
The many-thonged slave-trad- 
er’s lash cut out of rhinoceros hide 
now finds its counterpart in the 
dainty horse-whip of the more re- 
fined. The hide, raw or burnished, 
or given an amber-like appearance 
and polish, is often transformed 
into queer-looking tables, trays, 
and smaller objects. Thus it adds 
to the pride of the home owned by 
men of the colonial set. And 
finally, industry has found that 
disks cut from the hide and put on 
the lathe give a high polish and 
stand great wear. 
In young countries 
like Africa we must 
expect a) peal d 
changes in economic 
The natural paradises of 
game now seem to vanish as fast 
and as surely as the buffalo from 
the wide plains of America. Greed 
for lucre, the facilities of travel, 
Changes 
to be 
Expected 
aspects. 
perfection in firearms, alleged necessity, all 
At first 
helped the slave-trader and the missionary, 
Oxcarts 
and 
have played their parts. 
the trader and the sportsman. 
railroads brought the settler, 
THE USUAL FATE OF A RHINOCEROS 
Rhinoceros meat, and also the thick hide, is cut in strips a few inches thick and thrown across a hastily constructed rack. 
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HIDE OF RECORD BULL 
RHINOCEROS 
When first stripped from the carcass 
the heavy skin needed about twenty 
porters to move it, but after sixteen 
hours of scraping and paring, and as 
finally dried and packed, it weighed 
only 65 pounds and was carried by one 
native. 
caravans 
and 
his indus- 
< *aecenaagy - at 
; wo aii th ne ses 
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tries. Today automobiles are dis- 
placing oxen and horses. Chances 
for the game become slighter, 
and the difficulties for those who 
try to protect it greater. The 
countless herds are 
Game fast losing their 
Protection heritage. Great 
Now s 
Necessary game reserves have 
< been set aside 
throughout the “Dark Continent,” 
and the laws of various govern- 
ments guarantee to the teeming 
multitudes freedom unharassed. 
At times clamoring settlers and 
prospectors with their following 
enter. Economic stress tightens 
the purse strings of colonial ad- 
ministrations ; restrictions are les- 
sened,—and all hope for the game 
is gone. The elephants of the 
Addo Bush furnish proof of this 
in their last stronghold in south- 
ernmost Africa. The huge beasts 
could not be corralled nor con- 
trolled. They simply had to go. 
Fortunately the white rhinoceroses of the 
Congo-Nile race have little of the aggressiveness 
that makes the black form so dangerous a brute. 
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[heir realm lies far remote from civilization, 
and they leisurely roam over regions wherein 
ts 
The fire and smoke, 
together with the heat of the sun, transform the dried flesh into a staple food for the natives. 
