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Whether this divifion is right in all its parts^ I mail 

 not advance. That there is a rhinoceros in Afia with 

 one horn is what we pofitively know, but that there is 

 none of the other fpecies in that part of the continent does 

 not appear to me as yet fo certain. Again, there is no fort 

 of doubt, that though the rhinoceros with two horns is an 

 inhabitant of Africa, yet is it as certain that the fpecies 

 with one horn is often found in that country likewife, 

 efpecially in the eaftern part, where is the myrrh and cin- 

 namon country, towards Cape Gardefan, which runs into the 

 Indian ocean beyond the Straits of Babelmandeb. And if I 

 was to credit the accounts which the natives of the refpective 

 countries have given me, I mould be induced to believe that 

 the rhinoceros of the kingdom of Adel had but one horn, . 

 They fay this is the cafe where little rain falls, as in Adel, 

 which, though within the tropics,, is not liable to that fe- 

 veral months deluge, as is the inland part of the country 

 more to the weHward. They fay further, that all that woody 

 part inhabited^by Shangalla, correfponding to Tigre andSire, 

 is the haunt of the rhinoceros with two horns. Whether 

 this is really the cafe I do not pretend to aver, I give the 

 reader the itory with the authority ; I think it is probable ; 

 but as in all cafes where very few obfervations can be re- 

 peated, as in this, I leave him entirely to the light of his own 

 underftanding. .. 



The animal "reprefented in this drawing is a native of 

 Tcherkin, near Ras el Feel, of the hunting of which I have 

 already fpoken in my return through the defert to Egypt, 

 and this is the firft drawing of the rhinoceros with a double 

 horn that has ever yet been prefented to the public. The 

 firi! figure of the Aiiatic rhinoceros, the fpecies having but 



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