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mouthed head added to the dissimilarity. 
The common rhino is in color a very dark 
slate gray; these were a rather lighter slate 
gray; but this was probably a mere individ¬ 
ual peculiarity, for the best observers say 
that they are of the same hue. The muzzle 
is broad and square, and the upper lip with¬ 
out a vestige of the curved, prehensile de¬ 
velopment which makes the upper lip of a 
common rhino look like the hook of a tur¬ 
tle’s beak. The stomachs contained noth- 
with tents, food, and water, and Heller 
cared for the skins on the spot, taking thir¬ 
ty-six hours for the job. The second night 
he was visited by a party of lions, which 
were after the rhinoceros meat and came 
within fifteen feet of the tents. 
On the same night that Heller was visited 
by the lions we had to fight fire in the main 
camp. At noon we noticed two fires come 
toward us, and could soon hear their roar¬ 
ing. The tall, thick grass was like tinder; 
The calf, which was old enough to shift for itself, refused to leave the body.—Page 277. 
ing 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 ele¬ 
phants, the cow heron, but the slender, 
black-legged, yellow-toed egret—on the 
rhinos, and the bodies and heads of both 
the cow and calf looked as though they had 
been splashed with streaks of whitewash. 
One of the egrets returned after the shooting 
and perched on the dead body of the calf. 
The heat was intense, and our gun-bear¬ 
ers at once began skinning the animals, lest 
they should spoil; and that afternoon Cun- 
inghame and Heller came out from camp 
and if we let the fires reach camp we were 
certain to lose everything we had. So Lo- 
ring, Mearns, Kermit, and I, who were in 
camp, got out the porters and cut a lane 
around our tents and goods; and then 
started a back fire, section after section, 
from the other side of this lane. We kept 
every one ready, with branches and wet 
gunny-sacks, and lit each section in turn, 
so that we could readily beat out the flames 
at any point where they threatened. The 
air was still, and soon after nightfall our 
back fire had burnt fifty or a hundred yards 
away from camp, and the danger was prac¬ 
tically over. Shortly afterward one of the 
