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them, on the neck itself, and has no connection with the 
spinal column. The square-mouthed rhinoceros of South 
Africa is always described as being very much bigger than 
the common prehensile-lipped African rhinoceros, and as 
carrying much longer horns. But the square-mouthed 
rhinos we saw and killed in the Lado did not differ from 
the common kind in size and horn development as much 
as we had been led to expect; although on an average they 
were undoubtedly larger, and with bigger horns, yet there 
was in both respects overlapping, the bigger prehensile¬ 
lipped rhinos equalling or surpassing the smaller individuals 
of the other kind. The huge, square-muzzled head, and 
the hump, gave the Lado rhino an utterly different look, 
however, and its habits are also in some important respects 
different. Our gun-bearers were all East Africans, who had 
never before been in the Lado. They had been very scep¬ 
tical when told that the rhinos were different from those they 
knew, remarking that ‘^all rhinos were the same”; and the 
first sight of the spoor merely confirmed them in their be¬ 
lief; but they at once recognized the dung as being dif¬ 
ferent; and when the first animal was down they examined 
it eagerly and proclaimed it as a rhinoceros with a hump, 
like their own native cattle, and with the mouth of a hip¬ 
popotamus. 
On the way to camp, after the death of this bull rhino, 
I shot a waterbuck bull with finer horns than any I had yet 
obtained. Herds of waterbuck and of kob stared tamely 
at me as I walked along; whereas a little party of harte- 
beest were wild and shy. On other occasions I have 
seen this conduct exactly reversed, the hartebeest being 
tame, and the waterbuck and kob shy. Heller, as usual. 
