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animal stopped struggling and seemed more 

 at his ease. 



A mother rhinoceros gives only a small 

 quantity of milk at any time, and when the 

 young calf is only a few weeks old it begins 

 to eat grass, so the calf was fed all this 

 while on unsweetened condensed milk; not 

 long afterwards it began to graze. MesoYiro 

 was taken to Gkoma, a military station in 

 British East Africa, where he remained very 

 contented for about six weeks. A pool was 

 made for him, and in this pool he played 

 most of the day, plastering himself all over 

 with mud and doing other delightful things 

 that only a rhinoceros can appreciate. 



Having been bought as a speculation, at 

 the end of that time he was taken to Sharati, 

 and then to Uganda, whence he was conveyed 

 on the Uganda Railway to Mambasa on the 

 coast. Here at Mombasa, Mr. Tjader, an ama- 

 teur explorer and naturalist of New York, 

 had just arrived and was present when the 

 baby rhinoceros also arrived. Mr. Tjader, 

 after seeing the animal, cabled at once to Mr. 



