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Maydon, H.C. 1932. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14). pp. 1-445.
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They have also suffered more in recent years from native poachers, for they are, of course, easily killed by the bush folk with their deadly poisoned arrows; and the high value and portability of Rhino horn, and the greed of Indian and Arab middlemen have supplied the incentive.

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The distribution of Rhino in Kenya is somewhat similar to that of Elephant: practically identical in the eastern part of the Colony, in fact, but less extensive to the west.

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Kenya. I know of a 42-inch, a 38-inch, and a 37-inch, all three obtained in those forests not so very long ago, while a 20-inch horn is no bad trophy from a low-country beast.

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