In Sep. 1909, on Luveze River, N.E. Rhodesia, 2850 ft high, rhino plentiful.
September 1909, between Nyamadzi and M'Pamadzi Rivers, N.E.R., 1900-2000 feet, very hot, rhino present.
In Valley of Luangwa, hunting expedition August to November 1909. Less common was the rhinoceros, R. bicornis.
Northern portions of North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia. The elephant and the black rhinoceros are found throughout these highland tracts of country in sparing numbers. In the Luangwa Valley and in the valleys of the M'Chinga mountains they are fa
Some animals remain close to the river all year round, but the rhinoceros retreat towards the base of the M'Chinga Mountains to the West and to the higher lands sloping to the Angonia Plateau on the east.
Black rhinos swarm in the valleys in the M'Chingas to the east of M'Pika. Both the ?Bonili' variety, in which the front horn is longer than the back, and the Keitloa, in which the back horn is the longer, are to be observed.
White rhinoceros is absent from Northern Rhodesia.
Huge water rhino in Central Africa. I do not say that I am convinced as to the existence of a huge water rhino in Central Africa, but I do say this, that, in my opinion, it is by no means unlikely that the 'Chimpakwe', as the Awisa term it, is something very much more material than a myth. I have asked many old chiefs in North-Eastern Rhodesia about the Chimpakwe and they have all assured me that this mighty two-horned amphibian was, many years ago, an inhabitant of the Luangwa River. One old Awisa headman told me that his father had shot one with a gun which an Arab hunter had given him. The natives stated that since the water in the Luangwa has decreased in volume and height, the chimpakwe has disappeared, but that he might today be found in the deeper waters of the Luapula, and in one or two deep pools in the northern part of NW Rhodesia.
Black rhinos swarm in the valleys in the M'Chingas to the east of M'Pika. Both the 'Bonili' variety, in which the front horn is longer than the back, and the Keitloa, in which the back horn is the longer, are to be observed. Many years ago the differences in the relative measurements of the two horns were thought to indicate a different species, or subspecies, of the Rhinoceros bicornis, but this belief does not find much favour today, and it certainly seems to have very little to support it.
