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however, have been ascertained to inhabit Abyssinia as well as 
the more southern parts of Africa. The Keitloa is said to grow to 
six feet high at the shoulder, and may at least approach that size, 
whereas the Borele would not probably exceed five feet. The 
horns of the Keitloa are much longer than in the other species, 
and its hind horn especially (which is straight and laterally 
much compressed) grows to two feet and a half or more in length, 
being not unfrequently as long as the anterior horn, though 
oftener the latter is still longer, and considerably more so than 
the other. In the Borele the posterior horn is much shorter, and 
is generally about half the length of the anterior one, which 
seldom exceeds two feet. Both of these are fierce and energetic 
animals — especially the smaller species — and so active and swift 
of foot that they cannot he overtaken on horseback. “Both 
species,” writes W. C. J. Andersson, “are extremely fierce, 
and, excepting the Buffalo, are, perhaps, the most dangerous 
of all the beasts of Southern Africa. Seen in its native wilds, 
either when browsing at its leisure, or listlessly sauntering 
about, a person would take this beast to be the most stupid 
and inoffensive of creatures ; yet, when his ire is roused, he 
becomes the reverse, and is then the most agile and terrible ef 
animals. The Black Bhinoceroses are, moreover, subject to 
sudden paroxysms of unprovoked fury, rushing and charging with 
inconceivable fierceness animals, stones, and bushes ; in short, 
every object that comes in their way.” “ The Black Rhinoceros,” 
writes Gordon Cummin g also, “is subject to paroxysms of sudden 
fury, often ploughing up the ground for several yards with its 
horns, and assaulting large bushes in the most violent manner. 
On these bushes they work for hours with their horns, at the 
same time snorting and blowing loudly, nor do they leave them in 
general until they have broken them to pieces. During the day 
they will be found lying asleep, or standing indolently in some 
retired part of the forest, or under the base of the mountains, 
sheltered from the power of the sun by some friendly grove of 
umbrella-topped mimosas. In the evening they commence their 
nightly ramble, and wander over a great extent of country. They 
usually visit the fountains between the hours of nine and twelve 
o’clock at night ; and it is on these occasions that they may be 
most successfully hunted, and with the least danger.” 
