168 . BEASTS AND MEN 
after the mother has been driven off or killed—and brought 
upon milk, the Sumatran rhinoceros is taken in pitfalls. This 
species is often captured, but in captivity the animals are very 
liable to die of the same complaint that killed off all my speci- 
mens. There is a representative of this kind of rhinoceros 
living in the Imperial Zoological Gardens at Schénbrunn, near 
Vienna, and this one is, as far as I know, the only example 
which has survived for any length of time in captivity. Another 
rarity is the form Ahznxoceros lastotzs, of which there was about 
thirty years ago an example housed in the London Zoological 
Gardens, where it lived for more than twenty years. The 
common Indian rhinoceros and also the African rhinoceros 
thrive excellently in captivity and in our climate; I know 
several of these animals which have lived for more than thirty 
years in Zoological Gardens. They are also possessed of 
great vitality. On several occasions I have known rhino- 
ceroses break off their horns, without being in any way in- 
jured ; the horn soon grows again, and in the course of a year 
reaches quite a considerable size. 
When they are young, rhinoceroses are very easy to tame. 
The young animals which I formerly received from the 
Egyptian Sudan were led loose through the desert, it being 
found unnecessary to fasten them up in any way. After their 
arrival in the laager they became speedily accustomed to 
their black keeper, and would follow him about like dogs. 
In the Nubian collection which I brought to the Berlin Zoo- 
logical Gardens in the seventies there were three of these 
young rhinoceroses, and I used to allow them to run about 
loose, much to the amusement of the public. Great was the 
delight of the visitors when the keeper hid himself for a 
joke, and the animals, uttering plaintive cries, began to search 
for him. 
It was some forty years ago that the first rhinoceros 
was brought to Europe by my traveller, Cassanova. I 
went to Trieste to take it over. I paid £800 down for it, 
being under the impression that I had thereby made a very 
