DOUBLE-HORNlRD RHINOCEROS. 



Strength of a rhinoceros when severely wounded. 



ran into a deep hole, ditch, or ravine, without 

 outlet, breaking above a dozen of the javelins as 

 he entered. Here we thought he was caught as 

 in a trap, for he had scarcely room to turn ; 

 when a servant, who had a gun, standing directly 

 over him, fired at his head, and the animal fell 

 immediately, to all appearance dead. All those 

 on foot now jumped in with their knives to cut 

 him up; but they had scarcely begun, when the 

 animal recovered so far as to rise upon his knees: 

 happy then was the man that escaped first; and 

 had not one of the Agageers, who was him- 

 self engaged in the ravine, cut the sinew of the 

 hind leg as he was retreating, there would have 

 been a very sorrowful account of the foot-hunters 

 that day. 



<f After having dispatched him, I w r as curious 

 to see what wound the shot had given, which had 

 operated so violently upon so huge an animal; 

 and I doubted not it was in the brain. But it 

 had struck no where but upon the point of the 

 foremost horn, of which it had carried off above 

 an inch : and this occasioned a concussion that 

 had stunned him for a minute; till the bleeding 

 had recovered him." 



Mr. Sparrman informs us, that, having opened 

 one of these animals, he found the stomach to be 

 four feet in length and two in diameter, to which 

 was annexed a tube or canal, twenty-eight feet 

 long, and six inches diameter : the heart was eigh- 

 teen inches in length; and the kidneys the same in 



