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Millais, J.G. 1919. Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, DSO, Capt 25th Royal Fusilliers. London, Longmans, Green and Co. pp. i-xiii, 1-387.

Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, DSO, Capt 25th Royal Fusilliers

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

Ceratotherium simum. These great creatures had now become exceedingly scarce in Africa south of the Zambesi, and are now quite extinct in all South Africa except in the neighbourhood of the Black Umvolozi in Zululand, where, according to latest reports (1917), there are twelve which are fortunately strictly preserved.

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum)

Ceratotherium simum. In 1886 two Boers in Northern Mashunaland killed ten, and five were killed in Matabeleland in the same year. After this date they seemed to be extremely rare. I saw the tracks of one near the Sabi in 1893, and the same year Mr Coryndon killed one in Northern Mashunaland.

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1919

Selous now went to the Se-whoi-whoi river, where two years previously he killed the last two white rhinoceroses he was destined to see.

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1893

Ceratotherium simum. I saw the tracks of one near the Sabi in 1893, and the same year Mr Coryndon killed one in Northern Mashunaland.

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