14 IN MALAY FORESTS. 



a 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 rhino- 

 ceroses 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." 



Rhinoceros' 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 kramat, or was 

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

 known as Rhinoceros 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 



