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savage ; one of the largest size has been seen to run 

 away from a single wild dog. Its native name is Badak, 

 whence the term Abadia, or Abath, applied to the 

 Indian rhinoceros by our early navigators. SirS, Rallies 

 says that, besides this species, there is another animal in 

 the forests of Sumatra, never noticed, which in size and 

 character nearly resembles this rhinoceros, but which is 

 said to have a single horn, and to be distinguished by a 

 narrow white belt encircling the body. The natives of 

 the interior term itTennu, which, at Malacca, is the name 



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10.— Sumatran Rhinoceros. 



of the Tapir ; but in Sumatra the name of the Tapir is 

 Gindoi and Babialu. In the interior, however, where 

 different tribes shut out from general communication 

 speak different dialects, it is probable that the term Ten- 

 nu may be the name applied by some, as at Malacca, to 

 the tapir, and hence would the confusion arise ; for, from 

 the description, notwithstanding the assertion that it pos- 

 sesses a horn, we cannot help regarding this Tennu of 

 the forest of the interior as the tapir. 



Of the African species of rhinoceros we may first no- 

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