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ground, wound him with their javelins moftly in the belly 

 where the wound is mortal. 



A surgeon of the Shaftefbury Indiaman was the firfl who 

 obferved and mentioned a fact which has been rafhly 

 enough declared a fable *. He obferved on a rhinoceros 

 newly taken, after having weltered and coated itfelf in mud, 

 as above mentioned, feveral infects, fuch as millepides, or 

 fcolopendra, concealed under the ply of the fldn. With all 

 fubmiflion to my friend's cenfure, I do not think he is in 

 this fo right or candid as he ufually is ; not having been 

 out of his own country, at leaft in any country where he 

 could have feen a rhinoceros newly taken from weltering 

 in the mud, he could not poffibly be a judge of this fact as 

 the officer of the Shaftefbury was, who faw the animal in 

 that flate. Every one, 1 believe, have feen horfes and cows 

 -drinking in foul water feized by leeches, which have bled 

 them exceflively, and fwelled under the animal's tongue to 

 a monftrous fize. And I cannot fay, with all fubmiflion to 

 better judgment, that it is more contrary to the nature of 

 things, thiat a leech ihould feize an animal, whofe cuftom 

 is to welter in water, than a fly bite and depofit his eggs in 

 a camel in the fun-fhine on land. But further I muft bear 

 •this teftimony, that, while at Ras el Feel, two of thefe ani- 

 mals were flain by the Ganjar hunters in the neighbour- 

 hood. I was not at the hunting, but, though ill of the flux, 

 I went there on horfeback before they had fcraped off their 

 =muddy covering. Under the plies of one I faw two or three 

 very large worms, not carnivorous ones, but the common 



P r 2 large 



* Vidi BufFon Hift. rhinoceros, p. 225. Edwards, p. 25. and 26. 



