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yards of telegraph-wire round their necks. The line to Rejaf 
is perpetually out of order through them and the elephants. 
The latter abound. We saw many herds, but had to avoid 
them, so as to get the white rhinoceros. 
“ The Bahr-el-Ghazal is a hard country to work—terribly 
hard. A crawl of 50 yards on the ‘ iron-stone ’ takes more 
out of you than 300 yards in British East; and the game is 
wild ’ the giant eland particularly so. 
WHITE RHINOCEROS (. Rhinoceros simus) 
“ This great pachyderm is far from plentiful in the Bahr-el- 
Ghazal—much less so than is the case farther south in the 
erewhile Lado Enclave. Dur¬ 
ing my trek right across the 
whole Bahr - el - Ghazal pro¬ 
vince in 1913 I only saw 
three. That small experience 
is too little to judge by, but 
it left an impression that the 
white rhino is not so aggres¬ 
sive nor so liable to sudden 
outbursts of fury such as we 
well know characterise his 
‘ black 5 cousin in East and 
Central Africa. Here the 
local natives exhibit little or 
no fear of the rhinoceros. 
Both the spoor and the sign of this species much resemble that 
of elephant. My specimen I secured by following the spoor 
from a water-hole where the beast had wallowed and, during 
the stalk, noticed that its method of feeding was entirely by 
grazing and not by browsing on trees and thorns as we see the 
black rhinoceros do. The difference in bulk was also very 
marked, the white rhinoceros appearing enormous—I should 
say nearly twice the cubic measurement of the other.” 
White Rhinoceros. 
(Note the square mouth.) 
A feature in the anatomy of the white rhinoceros merits 
mention. In the skull of this animal (Rhinoceros simus) there 
occurs immediately in front of the eyes a sort of double bony 
