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or tubercules which we fee upon thefe places, both on the 

 elephant and rhinoceros. The Count de BufFon, who be- 

 lieves thefe puftules- to be natural parts of the creature, fays, 

 in proof of this, that they have been found in the foetus of 

 a rhinoceros. 1 do not pretend to diibelieve this ; it may be r 

 that thefe punctures happening to the old female at the 

 time me was with young, the imprefljon of her fufferings 

 might have appeared upon the young one. However this 

 is, I cannot conceal that I have heard r not from hunters only, 

 but men worthy of credit, that this i3 the origin of thefe 

 protuberances ; and many rhinocerofes, flain in Abyflinia, 

 are known to have been found at the feafon of the fly, with 

 their moulders and buttocks bloody and excoriated. It is- 

 likewife by no means true, that the fkin of the rhinoceros 

 is hard or impenetrable like a board, I mould rather fufpect 

 this to be difeafe, or from a different habit* acquired by 

 keeping ; for in his wild flate he is flain by javelins thrown 

 from indifferent hands, which I have feen buried three feet 

 in his body. A mufket fhot will go through him if it meets 

 not with the intervention of a bone ; and the Shangalla kill 

 him by the worft and moft inartificial arrows that ever were 

 ufed by any people praclifing that weapon, and cut him to< 

 pieces afterwards with the very worfl of knives. . 



I have faid that, in the evening, lie goes to welter in the 

 mire. He enjoys the rubbing himfclf there fo much, and- 

 groans and grunts fo loud, that he is heard at a confidera- 

 ble diflance. The pleafure that he receives from this en- 

 joyment, and the darknefs of the night, deprive him of his 

 ufual vigilance and attention.. The hunters, guided by his 

 noife,. ileal fecretly upon him, and, , while lying on the 



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