Jesse, W., 1869. Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117
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Ethiopia. Shot rhino near Bejook on Anseba River. The next morning I went out with my attendants and posse comitatus of natives, to bring in the skeleton, and on arriving at the place I witnessed a scene precisely similar to that described by Sir Samuel Baker as taking place over the carcass of a hippopotamus. Women, old and young, the former hideous, scratching, screaming, and fighting over the entrails, pulling furiously at these or at one another's hair, it mattered not which so that possession of the prey was secured; the men jabbering like jackals, fighting with sticks and knoves, one and all knee-deep in filth and blood; so that between them, in about four hours, the skeleton was utterly bared of meat and skin, leaving not an atom for the vultures.
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