RHINOCEROS. 



CHAPTER XXXI II. 



THE RHINOCEROS. 



Brutality of the Ehinoceros — The Eorelo — The Keitloa — The Monoho — The 

 Kobaaba — Diiference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the White 

 Ehinoceros — Incarnation of Ugliness — Acute Smell and Hearing — Defective 

 Vision — The Buphaga Africana — Paroxysms of Eiige — Parental Affection — 

 Nocturnal Habits — Rhinoceros-Hiinting — Adventures of the Chase — -Narrow 

 Escapes of Messrs. Oswell and Andersson — The Indian Rhinoceros — The Su- 

 matran Rhinoceros — The Javanese Rhinoceros — Its involuntary Suicide. 



THE Rhinoceros has about the same range as the eh^phant, 

 but is found also in the island of Java, where the latter is 

 unknown. Although not possessed of the ferocity of carnivorous 

 animals, the rhinoceros is completely wild and untameable ; the 

 image of a gigantic hog, without intelligence, feeling, or docility, 

 and thougli emulating the elephant in size is infinitely inferior 

 in point of sagacity. The latter, with his beautiful, intelligent 

 eye, awakens the sympathy of man ; while the rhinoceros is the 

 very image of brutal violence and stupidity. 



It was formerly supposed that Africa had but one rhinoceros, 

 but the researches of modern travellers have discovered no less 

 than four different species, two white and two black, each of 



