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CH. xiv] A TRAPPED LEOPARD 
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 sceptical when told that the rhinos 
were different from those they knew, remarking that 
44 all rhinos were the same and the first sight of the 
spoor merely confirmed them in their belief; but they 
at once recognized the dung as being different; 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 
hippopotamus. 
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 hartebeest were wild and shy. On other occa¬ 
sions I have seen this conduct exactly reversed, the 
hartebeest being tame and the waterbuck and kob shy. 
Heller, as usual, came out and camped by this rhino, to 
handle the skin and skeleton. In the middle of the 
night a leopard got caught in one of his small steel 
traps, which he had set out with a light drag. The 
beast made a terrific row, and went off with the trap 
and drag. It was only caught by one toe. A hyena 
similarly caught would have wrenched itself loose, but 
the leopard, though a far braver and more dangerous 
beast, has less fortitude under pain than a hyena. 
Heller tracked it up in the morning, and shot it as, 
hampered by the trap and drag, it charged the porters. 
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