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Although timid and anything but pugnacious, if driven to a 
corner and sore from wounds they will charge savagely. I never 
had one close with an Elephant of mine, though I have had them 
several times within a foot or two, but always managed to drop 
them before they did any harm; but I had an Elephant which I 
bought from Tye of Koliabar, a good and successful tea-planter, 
who had been mauled by one, and she was as good on Rhinoceros 
as an English pointer is on partridges. If there was one within 
two hundred yards of her, and she scented him, off she would go, 
and nothing in the world would stop her. At times they are 
gregarious, and Jackson, Adjutant of the 48rd Assam Light 
Infantry, and I came across fully twenty, if not more, in a (com- 
paratively speaking) small patch of long grass and reeds, and 
dropped four and lost several others severely wounded; but there 
was an impenetrable jungle close at hand, into which they took 
refuge, and there was no following them up there. 
Tue Lesser Ruinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus). 
These are distinguished by their size, by their shields being 
less prominent, and their skins covered with square angular 
tubercles. The grow up to 4} ft. high—a monster may be 5 ft. 
These Rhinos are found in the Sonderbunds, in the delta of the 
Ganges, and extend throughout Assam, Sylhet, the Garrow 
Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong into Arrakan, and Burma, probably 
extending into the western provinces of China. The Burmese 
dread them very much, and declare that if they see a camp-fire 
they rush at and devour it! They live in swamps, almost quag- — 
mires and quicksands, between the lower ranges of the mountains ~ 
in Burma, where it is impossible for a sportsman to get at them, E 
though I shot a two-horned variety once near Cape Negrais by — 
sitting up at night for one; but the sport is not worth the candle. — 
The tortures we underwent that night from mosquitoes and sand- — 
flies I shall never forget. j 
The ordinary R. swmatrensis is the best known two-horned — 
variety. It is common in Burma and Malaya. Its. body is © 
covered with bristles, and the folds of the skin are deep, especially — 
that behind the shoulder; the folds on the neck are not very dis: — 
tinct. The horns are generally mere knobs, but the one I shot 
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