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will take his stand beneath the tree, for three or four 

 days in succession, without once leaving his antagonist. 

 There are seasons when the rhinoceros is very dangerous 

 and ferocious, attacking every thing that comes near its 

 haunts, yet it is believed the stories related of them are 

 exagerated. 



On one occasion while descending the upper Tenasse- 

 rim on small rafts, a rhinoceros was started on the river 

 bank, which ran down the side of the river at a buffalo 

 gallop for about a quarter of a mile, to a ford, with which 

 it appeared to be well aquainted, where it crossed over. 

 Just as it reached the opposite bank, a Karen on a raft 

 near shot at it, and apparently hit the animal, but it rush- 

 ed into the jungle and was seen no more, though we en- 

 camped for the night a short distance below, on a small 

 island that was manifestly the resort of the rhinoceros. 



A gentleman in Arracan procured a single-horned 

 rhinoceros from the Arracan jungles, and presented it to a 

 friend in Calcutta. In the course of events it passed out 

 of that gentleman's hands, and was ultimately sold to the 

 Zoological Gardens for the sum of one thousand pounds 

 sterling, where it still lives. Rhinoceros trapping, then, 

 might prove no bad speculation. 



In the Latin Vulgate the Rhinoceros is put where 

 unicorn is read in the English Bible; and a similar ren- 

 dering has been adopted in several Indian versions, 

 though unsupported by any philological considerations. 

 The Hebrew name rexm bears no resemblance to the 

 name of the rhinoceros in any of the countries adjacent 

 to Judea. In Persian it is called karg. 

 Rhinoceros unicornis, Linn. 



" indicus, Cuvier. 



" asiaticus, Blumen. 



" incrmis, Lesson. 



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DOUBLE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 



The double-horned rhinoceros is not uncommon in the 

 southern provinces. It differs from the other species 

 not in its horns only, but also in its skin, which is as 



