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IN AFRICA 
range and long range, over our shoulders, and 
through our cameras, every way whereby a con¬ 
scientious lover of life and nature can study a 
prominent member of the Mammalia. We called 
the place Rhino Park because the country looks like 
a beautiful park studded with splendid trees and 
dotted with rhinos. 
When I went to Africa I was equipped with the 
following fund of knowledge concerning the rhi- 
A Morning Walk on the Tana River 
noceros: First, that he is familiarly called “rhino” 
by the daring hunters who have written about him; 
second, that he is a member of the Perissodactyl 
family, whose sole representatives are the horse, 
the rhino, and the tapir; third, that he savagely 
charges human beings who write books about their 
thrilling adventures in Africa, and, finally, that he 
looks like a hang-over from the pterodactyl age. 
The books and magazine stories that have come out 
since Mr. Roosevelt made African hunting the 
