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photographed it and measured it carefully. It was a cow, 
considerably smaller than the bull of the other day and the 
thinnest I had ever shot, though its horns did not seem as if it 
were extraordinarily old. Its front horn only measured 26J 
inches, though, owing no doubt to the very small size of the 
animal itself, it looked much longer. The porters took meat 
in spite of its emaciation, while I cut off the horns and buried 
the skull, having avoided chopping the bone at all. 
Dead Rhinoceros Cow of the Small Variety {Rhinoceros bicomis). 
(From a Photograph by the Author.) 
There was here much stunted bush, though not thick ; the 
country was very flat and the soil like dried mud, which it 
undoubtedly is, namely, lacustrine deposit ; and all along this 
part were many tall chimney-like ant-heaps. The usual kinds of 
game were observed, with more Waller’s gazelle than I had seen 
anywhere. For a day or two past I had noticed that the lake 
water was getting fresher and at the same time less clear, and 
now it had lost its salt taste altogether and become muddy, 
looking quite red out to sea. This was of course caused by 
