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Beast, of a large size, there coming from his Nose an Horn a Cubit long (brown 

 towards the Bottom, Whiter near the Point) and Six inches Diameter, whence 

 the derivation of his Name from Rin, Nasus,a Nose and Keras Corniian Horn • 

 between this Animal and the Elephant, is a mortal Strife, for which Nature 

 seems to have Armed it on purpose ; it being a four-footed Beast, with Three 

 Partings of the Hoof, built on thick strong Thighs, but short, considering the 

 great bulk of its Body which presses them ; it is Tall enough to reach the 

 Bowels of its antagonist with its Horn, with which it Grores him to Death ; 

 nor has she given him less firm Bones to the Trunk, if by chance it should be 

 crushed by the Elephant, defending its very Hide with a Coat of Mail ; where- 

 fore before on the Neck and Shoulders, and behind in the Quarters, the Skin 

 lies in folds, like Fi-^h Scales over one another ; the Face bears much of an 

 Hog's Countenance, unless the upper Lip which resemble a Cow's, and the 

 lower, the form of a Whale's; the Mouth discovers a mishaped tongue, set 

 about with two rowes of Teeth ; it is of the same Mouse colour, and Tailed 

 as an Elephant is, and Feeds of the same Fodder and is kept facing too 

 mighty, but lean Elephants. 



"Whether the Rhinoceros be the Unicorn, I suspend my belief, since I have 

 seen a Horn turned with Furrows and Ridges from the Basis to the Point,and 

 Tapering like that of our King's Arms, but what Petrus Angelius relates con" 

 cerning the Avager or Indian Ass can have no congenity with this," A quotation 

 from this author is given, " The Wild Asses of India are as big or bigger than 

 Horses, whose Heads are of a Purple die, their Byes Blew,the rest of their Body 

 White ; on their Foreheads they have an Horn a Cubit in length, whose lower 

 part for Two Hands breadth is White, and the top, which is sharp, inclining 

 to a Bright Red, but the Middle Part is blood Red ; of these they make cups 

 out of which whosoever drinks, neither Cramp nor Falling Sickness seizes them 

 nor has any manner of Poison any force, if that immediately before or after tak- 

 ing the same, either water, wiue or other liquid thing be taken out of these 

 cups," However Fryer thinks that the Rhinoceros, which come from Bengala, 

 and are esteemed terrible and indomitable creatures, must be (or more) what 

 Petrus calls Asses, there being no other beasts in those parts with but one 

 horn. In some artificial lakes were flocks of water-fowl which the Persian^ 

 were skilled, by their long case-hardened guns, to shoot flying. Hawks of 

 Muscovia were purchased at great rates " nor undeservedly, for they will 

 strike down these Colum that are big as Wild Turkies, and visit India in the 

 Cold Season, eleven or a dozen one after another, as they fly in Train like 

 Wild Geese, and come down with the last themselves ; they have some 

 Hawks of their own, but they are of a Cowardly Breed to these." 



On the journey back to the coast " we met a Lion and a spotted Deer, 

 carrying up as Presents to the Sophi frcm the Mogul ; the Lion seemed 

 rather a Catamountain than such a Majesfcick Creature as ours in Europe 

 being nigher a Dun colour than a Dark Red, without Beard, nor haired all 

 from the Head down to the Crest and Thighs ; about the Lips it had Bristles 



