TAMING A YOUNG RHINOCEROS 51 



I have seen Maina many times since in all sorts of scrim- 

 mages, and I never saw him show the white feather again, 

 though with the same mahout on his back ; but I fancy the 

 Zemindar, when he heard what disgrace had been brought on 

 his pet shikarie elephant, gave the mahout a bad quarter of an 

 hour. During the night the villagers brought in the young 

 rhinoceros, and when I saw him the next morning he was the 

 impersonification of all that is savage. He was securely 

 tethered, but he tried to get at everybody a tiger could not 

 have been more savage. Yet in the course of a couple of days 

 he quieted down, ate plantains out of the hand, and in a week 

 followed Sookur about everywhere. I sold him to Jamrach's 

 agent for 60, but I believe I ought to have got double. 



