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ance of life. Behind the foremoft, or crooked horn, is 

 the flat flraight one, and again immediately behind that I 

 have feen diftinctly the rudiments of a third, and the horn 

 full an inch long. If we may judge by its bafe, it would 

 feem this third horn was intended to be as long as the o- 

 ther two. 



The hunters of thefe large beafts are called Agageer, 

 from Agaro, to kill, by cutting the hams or tendon of Achil- 

 les with a fword. I have already defcribed the manner of 

 this hunting. Thefe Agageers, the only people that have an 

 opportunity of obferving, if they would only tell what they 

 do obferve truly, fay, they frequently fee rhinocerofes 

 with three horns grown ; that this laft is round, but 

 does not crook at the point, and is not quite fo long as 

 are the other two, nor tapered fo much as the foremoft 

 or crooked one ; but this I leave entirely upon their ve- 

 racity. I never did fee the animal myfelf, nor three 

 grown -horns adhering to each other, as I have feen two; 

 So if this is truth, here is a third fpecies of this quadrupeds 

 They fay the third horn is only upon the male, and does 

 not grow till he is advanced in years ; the double horn 

 which I have is fixed to a ftrong mufcle or cartilage ; when 

 dry, exceedingly tough. It comes down the os fronth, and 

 along the bone of the nofe ; but not having obferved accu- 

 rately enough at the time the carcafe was lying before me, 

 I do not remember how this mufcle terminated or was 

 made fail, either at the occiput or on the nofe. It has been 

 imagined by feveral that the horn of the rhinoceros and the 

 teeth of the elephant were arms which nature gave them 

 againft each other: that want of food, and vexation from be- 

 ing deprived of their natural habits, may make any two 



beafts 



