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can very feldom come up with him, this is owing to his 

 cunning, but not his fwiftnefs. He makes constantly from 

 wood to wood, and forces himfelf into the trucked part of 

 them. The trees that are frufli, or dry, are broke down, 

 like as with a cannon fhot, and fall behind him and on his 

 fide in all directions. Others that are more pliable, greener, 

 or fuller of fap, are bent back by his weight and velocity 

 of his motion. And after he has pafled, reftoring them- 

 felves like a green branch to their natural pofition, they 

 fweep the uncautious purfuer and his horfe from the 

 ground, and dafh them in pieces againfl the furrounding 

 trees-. 



The eyes of the Rhinoceros are very fmall, and he fel- 

 dom turns his head, and therefore fees nothing but what 

 is before him. To this he owes his death, and never ef- 

 capes, if there is fo much plain as to enable the horfe to 

 get before him. His pride and fury, then, makes him lay 

 alide all thoughts of efcaping but by victory over his ene- 

 my. He Hands for a moment at bay, then, at a ftart, runs 

 ilraight forward at the horfe, like the wild boar, whom in 

 his manner of action he very much refembles. The horfe 

 eafily avoids him, by turning Ihort to afide, and this is the 

 fatal inftant : The naked man, with the fword, drops from 

 behind the principal horfeman, and unfeen by the Rhinoce- 

 ros, who is feeking his enemy the horfe, he gives him a 

 flroke acrofs the tendon of the heel, which renders him in- 

 capable of further flight or refiflance. 



In fpeaking of the great quantity of food necefiary to 

 fupport this enormous mafs, we muft likewife confider the 

 vait quantity of water which he needs. No country but 



that 



