162 RHINOCEROS. 



generally struck with the greatest correctness* 

 According to the last mentioned writer, the 

 Rhinoceros (and he speaks, we believe, of the JR. 

 Indicus) is a much more active animal than what 

 he is represented to be by others, possessing great 

 acuteness of smell, great rapidity of motion, and 

 accompanied by a vivacity, such as a cursory 

 view of the animal would by no means suggest. 

 He writes also of this animal making wanton 

 attacks on the Elephant whenever he has an 

 opportunity, and mentions the circumstance of 

 the latter being found with the belly torn 

 open. An instance is, at the same time, related, 

 as well known, of a Rhinoceros, which even ren- 

 dered the roads impassable by attacking travellers, 

 or those who passed near his haunts ; and he relates 

 an attack upon a sporting company, which was 

 made by the same animal in the close of the year 

 1 788, as generally known to the army and resi- 

 dents of the district. " Two officers belonging 

 to the troops cantoned at Dunapore, near Patna, 

 went down the river towards Monghyr, to shoot 

 and hunt. They had encamped in the vicinity of 

 Derriapore, and had heard some reports of a 

 Gheudah, or Rhinoceros, having attacked some 

 travellers many miles off. One morning, just as 

 they were rising about day break, to go in quest 

 of game, they heard a violent uproar ; and on 

 looking out, found that a Rhinoceros was goring 



