414 RHINOCEROS OF THE LADO [ch. xiv 
A couple of hundred yards away she fell, rose again, 
staggered, fell again, and died. The calf, which was old 
enough to shift for itself, refused to leave the body, 
although Kermit and Grogan pelted it with sticks and 
clods. Finally, a shot through the flesh of the buttocks 
sent it off in frantic haste. Kermit had only killed the 
cow because it was absolutely necessary in order to avoid 
an accident, and he was sorry for the necessity; but I 
was not, for it was a very fine specimen, with the front 
horn thirty-one inches long, being longer than any other 
we had secured. The second horn was compressed 
laterally, exactly as with many black rhinos (although 
it is sometimes stated that this does not occur in the 
case of the white rhino). We preserved the head, skin, 
and skull for the National Museum. 
The flesh of this rhino, especially the hump, proved 
excellent. It is a singular thing that scientific writers 
seem almost to have overlooked, and never lay any stress 
upon, the existence of this neck hump. It is on the 
neck, in front of the long dorsal vertebra, and is very 
conspicuous in the living animal; and I am inclined 
to think that some inches of the exceptional height 
measurements attributed to South African white rhinos 
may be due to measuring to the top of this hump. I 
am also puzzled by what seems to be the great inferiority 
in horn development of these square-mouthed rhinos of 
the Lado to the square-mouthed or white rhinos of 
South Africa (and, by the way, I may mention that on 
the whole these Lado rhinos certainly looked lighter 
coloured when we came across them standing in the 
open than did their prehensile-lipped East African 
brethren). We saw between thirty and forty square¬ 
mouthed rhinos in the Lado, and Kermit’s cow had 
much the longest horn of any of them ; and while they 
