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were gored. In one hunt, it tossed with its horn, a full spear's 

 length, the horse of a young man named Maksud, whence he got the 

 name of Rhinoceros Maksud."* 



Again, in the course of his narrative, he states — 



" We continued our march till we came near Bekram and then 

 halted. Next morning we continued halting in the same station, and 

 I went out to hunt 'the Rhinoceros. 



" We crossed the Siah-Ab, in front of Bekram, and formed our 

 ring lower down the river. When we had gone a short way, a man 

 came after us with notice, that a Rhinoceros had entered a little 

 wood near Bekram, and that they had surrounded the wood, and 

 were waiting for us. We immediately proceeded towards the wood 

 at full gallop, and cast a ring round it. Instantly on our raising the 

 shout, the Rhinoceros issued out into the plain, and took to flight. 

 Humaiun, and those who had come from the same quarter, never 

 having seen a Rhinoceros before, were greatly amused. They fol- 

 lowed it for nearly a kos, shot many arrows at it, and finally brought 

 it down. This Rhinoceros did not make a good set at any person, 

 or any horse. They afterwards killed another Rhinoceros. I had 

 often amused myself with conjecturing how an Elephant and Rhi- 

 noceros would behave if brought to face each other ; on this occasion 

 the elephant-keepers brought out the Elephants, so that one Ele- 

 phant fell right in with the Rhinoceros. As soon as the elephant- 

 drivers put their beasts in motion, the Rhinoceros would not come 

 up, but immediately ran off in another direction." 



The description which Baber gives of a mailed single-horned Rhi- 

 noceros is unmistakeable ; but it still seems passing strange that 

 these huge pachyderms should have been killed with arrows. 



E. Bltth. 



* Some of Baber's observations are amusingly correct. Thus, of the common 

 large Indian Frogs (Rana tigkina), lie remarks — "The Frogs of Hindustan are 

 •worthy of notice. Though of the same species as [i. e. akin to] our own, yet 

 they will run six or seven guz [twelve or fourteen feet] on the face of the water." 

 I have known more than one European naturalist-traveller to have been at once 

 struck with this peculiarity. 



