240 MAMMALIA, 



most formidable foe, from which in an open country it 

 is almost impossible to escape. Karens tell us that if one 

 be wounded and not killed, he immediately retreats, but 

 as soon as he feels the smart of his wound, he turns and 

 rushes upon his antagonist with terrible fury. One of the 

 best Karen marksmen I ever knew perished in this way. 

 He shot and wounded but did not kill the elephant, which 

 immediately ran away. His companions, knowing the 

 habits of the animal, scattered themselves ; but this man 

 kept his ground in confidence that he would be able to 

 reload, and renew the attack when it returned ; but be* 

 fore his gun was loaded, the enraged elephant was upon 

 him, and instantly trampled him to death. 



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o 

 WILD HOG. 



Whole droves of wild hogs come down upon the Karen 

 paddy fields, and were they not guarded night and day, 

 they would destroy every thing before them. It is a 

 small blackish species, exceedingly numerous. 

 Sus indicus, Schinz. 



Sus Scrofa, Linne, apud Elliot. 



Sus vittatus, Schlegel. 



Sus cristatus, Wagner, apud Schinz. 



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SINGLL-HORNEO RHINOCEROS. 



The common single-horned rhinoceros is very abun- 

 dant. Though often seen on the uninhabited banks of 

 large rivers, as the Tenasserim, they are fond of rang- 

 ing the mountains, and I have frequently met with their 

 wallowing places on the banks of mountain streams, two 

 or three thousand feet above the plains. They are as 

 fond of rolling themselves in mud as a hog, or a buffalo. 

 The Karens when travelling have quite as much fear of 

 a rhinoceros as they have of a tiger. When provoked, the 

 rhinoceros, they say, pursues his enemy most unrelentingly, 

 and with indomitable perseverance. If to escape his rage 

 the huntsman retreats to a tree, the beast, it is said. 



