THE AFRICAN RHINOCEROS. 



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shorter. His skin is moderately thick, very much wrinkled, in deep 

 folds, and garnished with a quantity of long hair. 



The unarmed Rhinoceros, who inhabits the islands of the Ganges, 

 has but one rudimentary horn. 



The African Rhinoceros is the king of his race. He wears a 

 naked, smooth, and tenacious skin. Two horns are mounted on his 



KAFFIR HUNTER CARRIED OFF BY A RHINOCEROS. 



upper jaw ; the front one measures more than eighteen inches in 

 length. In all Southern and Western Africa this huge ungainly 

 quadruped is found. 



The Rhinoceros of Bruce inhabits Abyssinia. His supreme idea 

 of happiness, of the summum bonum, as viewed from a Proboscidean 

 point of view, is to wallow luxuriously in the mud and slime, and 



