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thighs, are folds that hang loose, and appear at a distance like 

 cloth housings dangling over it. It hears more resemblance to 

 the Horse than to anj^ other creature. As the Horse has a large 

 stomach, so has this animal ; as the pastern of the Horse is com- 

 posed of a single hone, so also is that of the Rhinoceros. It is more 

 furious than the Elephant, and cannot he rendered so tame and 

 obedient. There are numbers of them in the jungles of Peshauar 

 and Hashuagar, as well as between the river Sind and Behreh in 

 the jungles. In Hindustan, too, I frequently kiUed the Rhino- 

 ceros. It strikes powerfully with its horij, with which, in the 

 com-se of these hunts, many Men and many Horses 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 cou.rse of his narrative, he states, "We continued 

 our march till we came near Bekram, and there halted. Next 

 morning we continued halting in the same station, and I went out 

 to hunt the Rhinoceros." And again, " We crossed the Sia Oh" 

 (black water), "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 

 gaUop, and cast a ring round it. Instantly on our raising the 

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

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

 having seen a Rhinoceros before, were greatly amused. They 

 followed it for nearly a kos" (two English miles), "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 afterward killed 

 another Rhinoceros. I had often amused myself with conjecturing 

 how an Elephant and Rhinoceros wordd behave if brought to face 

 each other. On this occasion the elephant-keepers brought out the 

 Elephants, so that one Elephant fell right in with the Rhinoceros. 



* Some of the royal Emperor Babcr's remarks are amusingly correct. Thus, of 

 the common large Indian Frogs [Rana tigrina), ho remarks, " The Frogs of Hmdustau 

 are worthy of notice. Though of the same species as " {i.e., akm to) " our own, 

 they will run six or seven (7«z"' (twelve or fourteen feet) " on the face of the water." 

 Durin"- our long residence in India, we have Icnown more than one natmalist traveller 

 to have heen at once struck with this peculiarity. — Ed. 



