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fill to note how in all sudden changes of pace, from a trot to 

 a gallop or vice versa^ the same position is always exactly main- 

 tained. During the autumn and winter months the rhinoceros 

 is usually very fat, and its meat is then most excellent, being 

 something like beef, but yet having a peculiar flavor of its 

 own. 



" The part in greatest favor among hunters is the hump, 

 which is cut off whole and roasted just as it is in the skin, in 

 a hole dug in the ground, which, I think, would be difficult to 

 match, either for juiciness or flavor." 



