CHAPTER IV 



THE TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS (RHINOCEROS 

 LASIOTIS AND R. SUMATRENSIS) 



(Burmese, 'Ryan' : pronounced 'Chan') 



This, dear reader, is going to be a very short 

 chapter, not so much because I am afraid of 

 boring you (though that would be all-sufficient 

 cause), as for another reason, which involves 

 such an awful confession that I hardly like to 

 make it. However, the brutal truth will out; 

 so here goes. I have never shot a rhino; nay, 

 more, I have never even seen one, outside a 

 zoo. But I have been after them more than 

 once, and I can at least give you a general idea 

 of the animal's habits, of where not to go, and 

 the best time of year in which to follow them, 

 and so, perhaps, save you the long, fruitless 

 journeys after them which I have myself ex- 

 perienced. 



I do not propose to give a description of a 

 beast I have never seen, so will merely state 

 that in Burma there are no less than three 

 species, viz. the smaller one-horned rhinoceros 



