them on a stone, and striking them with a hatchet or mallet. 
The nails or hoofs must be left attached to the skin. After 
this, the skin is removed from the feet, legs, and thighs, and 
treated in other respects as pointed ont in skinning the Ele- 
| phant, at page 21. The bones of the head must be preservea 
if possible, leaving it attached at the muzzle only. All the 
muscles must be removed from the head, and the bones ren- 
_ dered as clean as possible. 
As it is probable that an animal of this magnitude has been 
_ killed at a great distance from any habitation, there will not 
_ be an opportunity of macerating the hide in alum and water, 
as pointed out for the Elephant. The skin will also be too 
_ thick for the arsenical soap to penetrate with effect. Under 
these circumstances, the next best thing to preserve it, is to 
take the ashes of a wood fire, and rub it well inside. The 
skin should then be stretched along the boughs of a tree, and 
allowed to dry. The skull, after it has also been dried, must 
be returned into the skin, and the lips, ears, and feet, im- 
_ bued plentifully with turpentine, which operation must be 
_ several times repeated ai intervals. Nothing is more effectual 
in preventing the attacks of insects than this spirit, and no 
larve will exist in places which it has touched. 
The skin will be sufficiently dried within two or three days, 
so that the hair may be turned inwards. If some common 
salt can be procured, a solution of it should be made, and the 
hair rubbed with it. Both sides of the skin must be rubbed 
with this two or three times, at intervals of a day. 
When suffic‘ently dry, the skin may be rolled up and packed. 
The hair ought to be inwards, with a layer of dried grass in- 
tervening, to prevent friction during conveyance. The opera- 
tion of rolling up the skin must be begun at the head. 
If the journey is long, the skin should be unrolled, and 
placed in the sun for a few hours, and the places liable to the 
attack of moths should be again rubbed with turpentine. 
When a skin thus prepared has reached the place where it 
is to be put up, it must undergo a preparation previous to 
its being mounted. In the first place, it must be extended 
_ along the ground with the hair undermost, so that it may ac- 
quire fresh pliability, and those parts which remain stiff must 
be moistened with tepid water. The skin must then be placed 
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