48 Great and Small Game of Africa 



Masai) kill rhinos, as well as elephants and other animals, with their 

 very powerful bows and arrows ; while even the puny weapons of the 

 Wakamba, made deadly by the strong poisons with which these people 

 are so well acquainted, are capable of occasionally laying one low. 



Swahilis are very fond of rhinoceros meat, and the liver is considered by 

 them a great delicacy. The tongue is, in my opinion, the best part, and is 

 very good when thoroughly boiled ; or the tail, well stewed, is not bad ; 

 either takes many hours to cook. A. H. Neumann. 



In Somaliland 



Somali Name, Wiyil ; Abyssinian Name, Aurarisse 



The rhinoceros of Somaliland appears to be the same animal as that 

 found in East and Central Africa. It is found varying very much in 

 size, also in shape and length of horn. I myself have shot rhinoceros 

 with three very marked varieties of horns ; one had three distinct horns, 

 the second had a front horn of 29 inches, the other being 12 inches 

 only, whilst the third specimen had a front horn of 17 inches and the 

 other horn 18 inches. The latter animal seems to correspond with the 

 old descriptions of R. keitloa. My companion, T. W. B. Greenfield, who 

 had shot many rhinoceroses in the Kilimanjaro country, could see no 

 difference. Half-way across the Haud (the great waterless plateau) I first 

 found their tracks. They are fairly numerous on the southern side of the 

 Haud, and particularly so between Milmil and Ime, and again south of the 

 Webbi Sheybelli. 



Rhinoceroses seem to have a great predilection for the tree cactus (giant 

 euphorbia), uprooting it and chewing the branches. The acrid juice of a 

 cactus should tickle even a rhino's palate. The rhinoceros, when unaccom- 

 panied by birds, is very easy to approach so long as the wind is right, as 

 it relies almost entirely on its marvellous sense of smell for any warning 



