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description. When enraged it runs in a direct line, ploughing the ground 
with itshorn. The hide is not welted, is of a dark brown colour, smooth, 
and without hair. 
Sir Everard then proceeds to describe the skull, and especi- 
ally to point out its exaet resemblance to the fossil skull from 
Siberia, whence he concludes—That although many animals belong- 
ing to former ages may be extinct, they are not necessarily so ; no change 
having taken place in our globe, which had destroyed all existing animals, 
and therefore many of them may be actually in being, although we have 
not been able to discover them. 
Our author then adverts to the immense tracts of Africa 
which remain unexplored, and to the probability that they 
form the retiring places of animals not disposed to submit to the 
will of man; he quotes the following document to show in 
what way particular animals may elude our inquiry at one time, 
and at another be brought within our reach. 
Mr. Campbell says, he found that the wild ass, or quagga, migrates in 
winter from the tropics, to the vicinity of the Malaleveen river, which, 
though farther to the south, is reported to be warmer than within the tropic 
of Capricorn,when the sun has retired to the northern hemisphere. He saw 
bands of twoor three hundred, all travelling south, when on his return 
from the vicinity of the tropic ; and various Bushmen, as he proceeded 
south, inquired if the quaggas were coming. Their stay lasts from two to 
three months, which in that part of Africais called the Bushmen’s harvest. 
The lions who follow them are the chief butchers. During that season, 
the first thing a Bushman does on awaking, is to look to the heavens to 
discover vultures hovering at an immense height ; under any of them he is 
sure to find a quagga that had been slain by a lion if the night. 
The author then goes on to draw a comparison between the 
docility of the elephant, the horse, and the rhinoceros, and re- 
fers the untameableness of the latter to the smallness of its 
brain; he concludes his paper as follows : 
The following account of the manners and habits of the Asiatic rhinoce- 
ros, clothed in armour, and having the welted hide, I have taken from the 
young man who was its keeper for three years in the Menagerie at Exeter 
Change, at the end of which period it died. 
It was so savage that, about a month after it came to Exeter Change, 
it endeavoured to kill the keeper, and nearly succeeded. It ran at him 
with the greatest impetuosity, but fortunately the horn passed between his 
thighs, and threw the keeper on its head ; the horn came against a wooden 
partition, into which the animal had forced it to such a depth, as to he 
unable for a minute to withdraw it, and during this interval the man 
escaped. 
Its skin, although apparently so hard, is only covered with small scales, 
of the thickness of paper, with the appearance of tortoise shell; at the 
edges of these, the skin itself is exceedingly sensible, either to the bite of a 
fly, or the lash of a whip ; and the only mode of managing it at all was by 
means ofa short whip. By this discipline the keeper got the management 
of it, and the animal was brought to know him: but frequently, more 
especially in the middle of the night, fits of phrenzy came on, and while 
these lasted nothing could control its rage, the rhinoceros running with 
great swiftness round the den, playing all kinds of antics, making hideous 
noises, knocking every thing to pieces, disturbing the whole neighbourhood, 
then all at once becoming quiet. While the fit was on, even the keeper 
