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were like Men's Hands, and the hind Feet and Legs re- 

 sembled those of a Man. This Creature was never seen 

 afterwards at Rome. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 Of the Rhinoceros. 1 



IN the same Plays of Pompey, and many Times beside 

 was shewed a Rhinoceros, with a single Horn on his Snout. 

 This is a second begotten Enemy to the Elephant. 2 He fileth 

 this Horn against hard Stones, and so prepareth himself to 

 fight ; and in his Conflict he aimeth principally at the Belly, 

 which he knoweth to be the tenderest Part. He is full as 

 long as his enemy ; his Legs much shorter ; his Colour a 

 palish Yellow. 



" Library of Entertaining Knowledge," thinks there is no doubt of its 

 being the Cephus here mentioned. " It is seldom, indeed," he says, " that 

 we are able to identify an animal so satisfactorily with the ancient descrip- 

 tion." The Cephus of Pliny must not be confounded with the Cebus of 

 Aristotle, which is the Papis Gelada. Wern. Club. 



1 Rhinoceros Indicus. Cuv. The Indian Rhinoceros. It has been 

 asserted by Bruce and Salt that the Indian or one-horned Rhinoceros 

 has never been found in Africa ; from whence, since it was led in the 

 triumph of Pompey, it was implied that this animal was brought. But 

 in confirmation of the above inference, Dio Cassius states, though indi- 

 rectly, that Augustus, in the celebration of his triumph over Cleopatra, 

 gave a one-horned rhinoceros to be slain in the circus. And Strabo de- 

 scribes another which he saw at Alexandria ; while Burckhardt says ex- 

 pressly, that it is the one-horned rhinoceros that is found in the country 

 above Sennaar. Wern. Club. 



9 The first is the Dragon, mentioned Lib. viii. c. 12. Wern. Club. 



