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Manners and death of a tame rhinoceros. 



away; and shortly afterwards he was purchased 

 .by Mr. Pidcock of Exeter 'Change. 



He exhibited no symptoms of ferocity, but 

 would obey the orders of his keeper, to walk 

 about the room, and exhibit himself; arid would 

 even suffer himself to be patted on the back or 

 sides by the numerous spectators who came to 

 visit him. His daily allowance of food was 

 twenty-eight pounds of clover, besides the same 

 weight of ship biscuit, a prodigious quantity of 

 greens, and from ten to fifteen pails of water 

 which were given at five pails a time. His food 

 was invariably seized in his long and projecting 

 upper-lip, and by it conveyed into the mouth. 

 He was very fond of sweet wines, of which he 

 would often drink three or four bottles in the 

 course of a few hours. His voice was somewhat 

 like the bleating of a calf. It was most com- 

 monly exerted when he observed any person 

 with fruit or other favourite food in his hand, and 

 was probably indicative of his anxiety to have it 

 given him. 



In the month of October, 1792, as this animal 

 was one day rising up suddenly, he unfortunately 

 slipped the joint of one of his fore-legs. This ac- 

 cident occasioned an inflammation that about 

 nine months afterwards terminated in his death. 

 He died in a caravan at Corsham near Ports- 

 mouth. But on the carriage arriving at the lat- 

 ter place, the stench arising from the body was 

 so offensive that the mayor was under the neces- 



