Pvl'iinoceros. 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



THE RHINOCEROS. 



Erutulity of tlie Ehinoceros — The Borelo — The Keitloa— The Monoho— Th<^ 

 Kobaaba — Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the Wliite 

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

 Vision — The Bnphaga Africana — Paroxysms of Rage — Parental Affection — 

 Nocturnal Habits — Rhinocei'os-Hunting — 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 Ehinoceros has about the same range as the elephant, but 

 is found also in the island of Java, where the latter is un- 

 known. Although not possessed of the ferocity of carnivorous 

 animals, the rhinoceros is completely wild and untamable ; the 

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

 and if in bodily size and colossal strength it, of all other land 

 animals, most nearly approaches the elephant, it is infinitely 

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

 good-natured, intelligent eye, awakens the sympathy of man ; 

 while the rhinoceros might figure as the very symbol 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 



