CHAPTER XXVIII 
THE BLACK LIST 
There remains another category of animals with 
which the settler is only too well acquainted. This 
list comprises those which have much to condemn 
them, but provide nothing through which these 
disadvantages may be counterbalanced. As a lover of 
animals it has been my aim to make this list as short 
as possible, and animals have been included in worthier 
lists which would by the majority of settlers have been 
placed in this, the Black List. 
Of all the suspects, least can be urged in favour of 
the Rhinoceros. It is to be feared that, from a settler’s 
point of view, he has nothing whatever to recommend 
him. He is destructive, and no fence has yet been 
erected which will withstand his onslaught. He offers 
no kind of sport whatever himself, and at the same 
time may be a very considerable nuisance when the 
pursuit of some worthier trophy is in process. His 
hide, it is true, makes excellent riding whips and most 
odoriferous table-tops, but his whole skin is usually 
too bulky to be removed, and one could hardly shoot 
such an enormous brute for the sake of half-a-dozen 
riding whips. As to the comestible properties of his 
flesh, it can only be said, as Nebuchadnezzar, when on 
