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Heyer 1927 Karagwe

1929 06 22 Sphere 034 A03

Black rhinoceros with long horns shot when the novelist Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) was living for a year in a hunting camp in Karagwe, Southern Uganda. Her husband George Ronald Rougier (1900-1976) was stationed there as a mining engineer in 1927-1928.

Caption: THE MARK OF THE FEMALE : A cow rhinoceros, with the enlarged rear horn which occurs only in old females.

Heyer, Georgette 1929. The horned beast of Africa. The Sphere 117 (1535) 22 June 1929: 656.

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