CHAPTER VI 

 THE TROTTING RHINO OF KELANTAN 



IT all came about through my quest of that hairy- 

 eared rhino of Chittagong, which is said to 

 wander down from lower Siam into upper Malay, 

 and which already, for one laborious period in 

 mud and rain, I had chased through eastern Perak. 

 But a two-horned variety of the Indian species, as 

 this Chittagong type is claimed to be, was unusual 

 enough to stir any hunter's blood, and to send me 

 forth, time after time, into the dense, wet and 

 leech-filled jungle. 



"Writing broadly, the rhinoceros is divided into 

 the African, which invariably wears a smooth skin 

 and carries two horns; and the Indian, wilh skin 

 in heavy folds and one horn. 



Among diligent collectors for scientific institu- 

 tions and uninformed hunters, there appears to be 

 a tendency to subdivide the rhino with a patronage 

 as reckless as that visited upon the caribou. F. 

 C. Selous, who, in my opinion, has more real prac- 

 tical knowledge about African big game, and espe- 

 cially about the rhino, than any man living— says 

 there are but two species of the African rhino : the 

 squared-lipped one, the " white " so-called (R. 



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