14 IN MALAY FORESTS. 



scowl, " the end of the matter is, that you cannot kill 

 an animal that will not die." 



The animal's third claim to distinction lay in its 

 horn, which was said to be of exceptional length and 

 girth, and also to be blue. Malays divide rhinoceroses 

 into four classes, according to their horns. There is 

 the one known as sumbu lilin, the " wax -coloured 

 horn " ; sumbu api, " the flame-coloured horn " ; sumbu 

 nila, " the blue horn " ; and lastly, sumbu itam, the 

 ordinary everyday "black horn." 



Ehinoceros' horns are considered to have the most 

 marvellous efficacy as remedies for almost every kind 

 of disease, and even shavings of a horn are carefully 

 prized. In a case where the most appalling wounds 

 were inflicted by this particular rhinoceros upon a 

 man named Kanda Daud, the whole credit of the 

 man's recovery was ascribed to the alleged fact that 

 some of the blue of the animal's horn had come off on 

 the man's hands as he sought to defend himself, and 

 that this blue had been used by the native doctors as 

 the antidote to the wounds. 



The fact that made this rhinoceros so well known 

 among the Europeans of Kinta was not so much the 

 colour of its horn, or that it was Jcramat, or was 

 savage, as that it was of the large one-horned variety 

 known as Ehinoceros Sondaicus, which is somewhat 

 rare, and that it seldom left an area of some forty 

 square miles, circumscribed by bridle - paths, and 

 within close reach of the headquarters of the district. 

 By comparison with the boundless extent of the forest 

 on all sides, and with the roving propensities of most 

 big-game animals, this made it easily accessible ; and 



