ome!"

The most calm and imperturbable rhinoceros I ever saw was one that made
us a call on the Thika River. It was just noon, and our boys were making
camp after a morning's march. The usual racket was on, and the usual
varied movement of rather confused industry. Suddenly silence fell.
We came out of the tent to see the safari gazing spellbound in one
direction. There was a rhinoceros wandering peaceably over the little
knoll back of camp, and headed exactly in our direction. While we
watched, he strolled through the edge of camp, descended the steep bank
to the river's edge, drank, climbed the bank, strolled through camp
again and departed over the hill. To us he paid not the slightest
attention. It seems impossible to believe that he neither scented nor
saw any evidences of human life in all that populated flat, especially
when one considers how often these beasts will SEEM to become aware of
man's presence by telepathy.* Perhaps he was the one exception to the
whole race, and was a good-natured rhino.

* Opposing theories are those of "instinct," and of slight
causes, such a grasshoppers leaping before the hunter's
feet, not noticed by the man approaching.

The babies are astonishing and amusing creatures, with blunt noses on
which the horns are just beginning to form, and with even fewer manners
than their parents. The mere fact of an 800-pound baby does not cease
to be curious. They are truculent little creatures, and sometimes rather
hard to avoid when they get on the warpath. Generally, as far as my
observation goes, the mother gives birth to but one at a time. There may
be occasional twin births, but I happen never to have met so interesting
a family.

Rhinoceroses are still very numerous-too numerous. I have seen as many
as fourteen in two hours, and probably could have found as many more
if I had been searching for them. There is no doubt, however, that this
species must be the first to disappear of the larger African animals.
His great size combined with his 'orrid 'abits mark him for early
destruction. No such dangerous lunatic can be allowed at large in a
settled country, nor in a country where men are travelling constantly.
The species will probably be preserved in appropriate restricted
areas. It would be a great pity to have so perfect an example of the
Prehistoric Pinhead wiped out completely. Elsewhere he will diminish,
and finally disappear.

For one thing, and for one thing onl