WHITE OR SQUARE-MOUTHED RHINOCEROS 665 
expert trackers. About ten o’clock they lay down under 
some tree; occasionally standing motionless in the half¬ 
shade for an hour at a time. Usually we found them lying 
on their sides, but sometimes kneeling. When roused they 
sometimes jumped at once to their feet, and sometimes sat 
up on their haunches like a dog; once Kermit saw one that 
had been walking to and fro, trying to make out what he 
was, sit down in this position. About mid-afternoon they 
rose from sleep and began to feed, making their way to¬ 
ward the water after nightfall. They fed a good deal during 
the night also. They frequently rubbed their noses and 
horns against the big ant-hills, for what purpose we cannot 
say. In walking they held their heads very low, the huge, 
square muzzles almost sweeping the ground. They trotted, 
and, if alarmed, galloped at some speed. 
They were slow, dull, stupid beasts, rather mild-tem- 
pered. Once a badly wounded one made an attempt to 
charge Kermit, and on another occasion, after he had spent 
some time taking photographs of a cow and calf, he got so 
close that the cow finally charged, coming on at a fair pace, 
with the big, loose lips shaking from side to side. A big 
calf, over half-grown, also charged him, and he had to turn 
it by a shot in one cheek. None of the others of our party 
were charged, although we frequently watched the huge 
beasts close up, and then withdrew while they trotted to 
and fro. They were not as nervous and irritable as the 
black rhinos, and their eyes were even duller. Once having 
spent some time watching a cow and her big calf feeding, as 
we stood by a tree thirty yards off, they finally suspected 
our presence and stopped to look at us. We withdrew for 
forty yards or so, not wishing to have them charge and 
