596 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
part of the forest, or under the base of the mountains, 
sheltered from the power of the sun by some friendly grove 
of umbrella-topped mimosas. In the evening they commence 
their nightly ramble, and wander over a great extent of 
country. They usually visit the fountains between the hours 
of nine and twelve o’clock at night, and it is on these 
occasions that they may be most successfully hunted, and 
with the least danger. The black rhinoceros is subject to 
paroxysms of unprovoked fury, often ploughing up the 
ground for several yards with its horn, and assaulting large 
bushes in the most violent manner. On these bushes they 
work for hours with their horns, at the same time snorting 
and blowing loudly, nor do they leave them in general until 
they have broken them into pieces. The rhinoceros is sup- 
posed by many, and by myself among the rest, to be the animal 
alluded to by Job, chap. xxxix., verses 10 and 11, where it 
is written, ‘‘Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in 
the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt 
thou trust him because his strength is great? or wilt thou 
leave thy labor to him?” evidently alluding to an animal 
possessed of great strength and of untameable disposition, 
for both of which the rhinoceros is remarkable. All the 
four varieties delight to roll and wallow in mud, with which 
their rugged hides are generally incrusted. Both varieties 
of the black rhinoceros are much smaller and more active 
than the white, and are so swift that a horse with a rider 
on his back can rarely overtake them. ‘The two varieties 
of the white rhinoceros are so similar in habits, that the 
description of one will serve for both, the principal difference 
consisting in the length and set of the anterior horn; that 
of the muchocho averaging from two to three feet in length, 
and pointing backwards, while the horn of the kobaoba often 
exceeds four feet in length, and inclines forward from the 
nose at an angle of forty-five degrees. The posterior horn 
nf either species seldom exceeds six or seven inches in 
