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ginians, who used these animals in their wars and 

 forays, the two elephants mentioned would appear 

 to be the sole instances of the domestication of this 

 magnificent beast ; but the reported capture in 

 Rhodesia of a number of young elephants recently, 

 gives one reason to hope that very shortly we may 

 hear of some interesting experiments in this 

 direction. 



In the Barud district, and in portions of the dry 

 thorn country, both north and south of the 

 Zambezi, about the Lupata Gorge, the Black 

 Rhinoceros may still be found. He is by no 

 means numerous however, and, to the best of my 

 behef, is absent entirely from those areas which he 

 to the eastward of Shupanga in the south, or of 

 a line drawn thence northward to the sixteenth 

 parallel of south latitude. The larger form of 

 square-mouthed or so-called white rhinoceros is 

 not found in Portuguese East Africa. This latter 

 extraordinary creature, which was at one time so 

 numerous in South Africa that in certain portions 

 of the country, as Baker tells us, men like Oswell 

 and Gordon-Cumming finally got tired of shooting 

 them, is almost extinct in the southern half of the 

 great continent. A few are jealously preserved, 

 I am told, in the Zululand Game Reserve, and a 

 few are believed to exist in that portion of 

 Rhodesia lying between Salisbury and the Kariba 

 Gorge of the Zambezi, but their numbers are 

 thought to be very Umited. It is thus a source of 

 great gratification, to those who feared for the 

 preservation of this splendid and most extraordinary 

 type, to learn that its occurrence to the north of 



