CHA1>TU X. 



ONE traveller says that the sight of a rhinoceros is 

 sufficient to put a lion to flight. Another, without con- 

 tradicting the first, says that the rhinoceros makes the 

 lion fly like a cat ; and a third writes, " He kills even 

 the elephant, by tearing open his belly with his tusk." 

 A fourth says, " Men are the only enemies whom 

 he fears, and this fear ceases when he is wounded or 

 pursued." 



Listen again to another one : " He is at once a 

 traitor and an aggressor whom nothing frightens, and 

 a furious brute whom all resistance only renders the 

 more implacable." This animal inhabits both Asia 

 and Africa. 



There are always degrees of character, and thus it 

 appears that the white rhinoceros is relatively gentle 

 and confiding. This mildness, however, must not be 

 exaggerated. A white rhinoceros, having been 

 wounded by Mr. Oswell, threw both horse and rider 

 into the air with one blow of its tusk. 



