396 RHINOCEROS OF THE LADO [ch. xiy 
big ears thrown forward. I fired for the chest, and the 
heavy Holland bullet knocked it clean off its feet. 
Squealing loudly it rose again, but it was clearly done 
for, and it never got ten yards from where it had been 
tying- 
At the shot four other rhino rose. One bolted to the 
right, two others ran to the left. Firing through the 
grass Kermit wounded a bull and followed it for a long 
distance, but could not overtake it; ten days later, 1 
however, he found the carcass, and saved the skull and 
horns. Meanwhile I killed a calf, which was needed 
for the Museum ; the rhino I had already shot was a 
full-grown cow, doubtless the calf’s mother. As the 
rhino rose I was struck by their likeness to the picture 
of the white rhino in Cornwallis Harris’s folio of the 
big game of South Africa seventy years ago. They 
were totally different in look from the common rhino, 
seeming to stand higher and to be shorter in proportion 
to their height, while the hump and the huge, ungainly, 
square-mouthed head added to the dissimilarity. The 
common rhino is in colour a very dark slate grey ; 
these were a rather lighter slate grey; but this was 
probably a mere individual peculiarity, for the best 
observers say that they are of the same hue. The 
muzzle is broad and square, and the upper lip without a 
vestige of the curved, prehensile development which 
makes the upper lip of a common rhino look like the 
hook of a turtle’s beak. The stomachs contained nothing 
but grass ; it is a grazing, not a browsing, animal. 
There were some white egrets—not, as is usually the 
case with both rhinos and elephants, the cow heron, but 
1 Kermit on this occasion was using the double-barrelled rifle 
which had been most kindly lent him for the trip by Mr. John Jay 
White, of New York. 
