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account of the manners of this animal. On the subject of feeding 

 he says : " That besides the trees capable of moat resistance, then 

 are in the vast forests within the rains, trees of a softer consist 

 ence, and of a very succulent quality, which seem to be destined 

 for his principal food. For the purpose of gaining the highest 

 branches of these, his upper lip is capable of being lengthened 

 out, so as to increase his power of laying hold with this in the 

 same manner as the elephant does with his trunk : with this lip, 

 and the assistance of his tK)ngue, he pulls down the upper branches 



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Double-Horned Rhinoceros, 



which have most leaves, ana these he devours first : having stripped 

 the tree of its branches, he does not therefore abandon it, but 

 placing his snout as low in the trunk as he knows his horns will 

 enter, he rips up the body of the tree, and reduces it to thin pieces 

 as so many laths ; when he has thus prepared it, he embraces as 

 much of it as he can in his monstrous jaws, and twists it round 

 with aa much ease as an ox would do a root of celery, or any suc'i 

 pot-herb, or garden stuff." 



Of the Rhinoceros there are four varieties in South Afrioa, 

 Jistinsruished bv the Bcchuanas bv the names of the " bor^le/' or 



