Daly, M., 1937. Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322
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Distribution - Status |
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White Rhino |
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In French Equatorial Africa while I was there, owing to the prevailing high prices offered for the horns, many thousands of those great brutes were slaughtered. Some French hunters, employing as many as fifty armed cap-and-powder native hunters and many more with modern rifles, would set out after them in large parties for months on end, returning with anything between half a ton and three tons of horns; and many dozens of such parties were all actively engaged in different parts of the country right across to Lake Chad and well across the British Nigerian frontier. During the years 1927-31 there must have been well over 10,000 white rhinos shot in these territories alone.
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