150 MAMMALIA. 



As soon as tlie Elephant-drivers put tteir beasts in motion ; the 

 Rhinoceros would not come up, but immediately ran off in another 

 direction." In a modern Rhinoceros hunt the Elephants are too 

 apt to turn tail, and the great Indian Rhinoceros sometimes 

 charges them ; but we remember no instance of an Elephant being 

 ■womided hj an infuriated Rhinoceros. 



" In the jungles round Chunar," remarks the founder of the 

 dynast jr of the Great Mogul, " there are many Elephants ;" and 

 elsewhere he asserts that the Elejohant " inhabits the district of 

 Kalpe" (or Culpee), "and the higher you advance from there 

 towards the east, the more do the wild Elephants increase in 

 number." UiDon which his able translator remark justly, in a note 

 penned more than half a century ago, that " the improvement of 

 Hindustan since Baber's time must be prodigious. The wild 

 Elephant is now confined to the forests under Himala, and to the 

 ghats of JIalabar. A wild Elephant near Karrah, Manikpore, or 

 Kalpe, is a thing, at the present day, totallj^ unknown. May not 

 their familiar existence in these countries down to Baber's days 

 be considered as rather hostile to the accounts given of the super- 

 abundant population of Hindustan in remote times ?" 



The description which Baber gives of a Mailed and Single-horned 

 Rhinoceros is unmistakable ; but it still seems passing strange that 

 these huge Pachyderms should have been killed with arrows. At 

 the present day the Rhinoceros has long been extirpated, with 

 not so much as a tradition of it remaining in all the parts where 

 Baber mentions its former occurrence ; but in the desert region 

 north-west of Delhi the Lion was numerous within the memory of 

 living man, and there we learn that already hardly a tradition 

 remains of this formidable animal as a former and comparatively 

 recent inhabitant of the extensive desert tract in question. 



Ccmtorltimm, Gray. This genus is founded on the Two- 

 horned Rhinoceros, C sumatranus, a comiDaratively small animal, 

 which certainly never much exceeds four feet in height ; but its 

 horns sometimes attain a beautiful development, more especially 

 the anterior one, which is much longer than the other, slender 

 except at base, and has a graceful curvature backward, more or 

 less decided in different individuals ; the other, or posterior horn, 

 is not placed close behind the first, as in the different two-horned 

 African species, but at a considerable distance from it, and it has 



