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him; he cannot emigrate, or seek his defence 

 among the sands of Atbara." 



The adversary just mentioned is a fly (probably 

 of the genus GEstrus), which attacks the Rhino- 

 ceros, as well as the Camel and many other ani- 

 mals, and would, according to Mr. Bruce, as ea- 

 sily subdue him, but for the stratagem which he 

 practises of rolling himself in the mud by night, 

 by which means he clothes himself in a kind of 

 case, which defends him from his adversary the 

 following day. The pleasure that he receives 

 from thus rolling in the mud, and the darkness 

 of the night, deprive him of his usual vigilance 

 and attention. The hunters steal secretly upon 

 him, and while lying on the ground, wound him 

 with- their javelins; mostly in the belly, where the 

 wound is mortal. 



SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS. 



In the Philosophical Transactions, for the year 

 1793, we also meet with a good figure of a Two- 

 horned Rhinoceros, with an accurate description, 

 by Mr. Bell, surgeon, who had resided some time 

 in Sumatra. The specimen, however, which he 

 describes, was but young, and probably far short 

 of its full size. 



i( The shape of the animal was much like that 

 pf the hog. The general colour was a brownish- 

 ash ; under the belly, between the legs and folds 

 of the skin, a dirty flesh-colour. 



