136 THE TROTTING RHINO 



is the single horn Indian proper (R. unicornis), 

 with its skin in great deep folds behind and 

 across the shoulders and across the thighs, which 

 averages about six feet in height at the shoulders. 

 The Malayan division of the Asiatic includes the 

 Javanese, with fewer folds than the Indian, and 

 one horn; and the Sumatran, with no skin folds 

 and usually two horns, which averages about four 

 feet and ranges over Sumatra, Burma and the 

 Malay Peninsula. Besides this is a smaller spe- 

 cies in the Peninsular, sometimes called the swamp 

 rhino, with a smooth skin and a single horn. Then 

 there is also the mythical' (so far as experience 

 of mine goes) , hairy-eared rhino hailing from Chit- 

 tagong. The second or upper horn of the Suma- 

 tran rhino is not very prominent, often it is a mere 

 knob ; it was nothing more than that on the one I 

 killed, which measured four feet one inch shoul- 

 der height— and the swamp one often has no horn 

 at all. 



And so, because of the rarity of the hairy-eared 

 variety, I went forth again to seek it. None could 

 give me helpful information; there were only the 

 vague rumors of its range, drawn mostly from 

 jungle natives coming occasionally out to the set- 

 tlements. And I had already made one hard and 

 fruitless trip in the Peninsula, largely as the result 

 of mis-direction from local white residents, who 



