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which overshadow the banks of the great rivers, and is stiU 

 more shy than the Asiatic Rhinoceros. It is hunted, and supphes 

 the same products as make valuable the Asiatic species. 



A species, or a simple variety of the Rhinoceros,— about the 



habits of which and the manner of hunting it, the English traveller, 

 Bruce, has given some details, — is met with near the ponds and 

 rivers of Abyssinia. Hidden during the day in the thickets, it 



