W6 TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
owes his deaths and never escapes if there is so 
much plain as to enable the horse to get before him. 
His pride and fury, then, make him lay aside all 
thoughts of escaping, but by victory over his 
enemy. He stands for a moment at bay, then, 
at a start, runs straight forward at the horse, like 
the wild boar, whom, in his manner of action, he 
very much resembles. The horse easily avoids 
him, by turning short to aside ; and this is the fa- 
tal instant : the naked man, with the sword, drops 
from behind the principal horseman, and, unseen 
by the Rhinoceros, who is seeking his enemy, the 
horse, he gives him a stroke across the tendon of 
the heel, which renders him incapable of further 
flight or resistance. 
In speaking of the great quantity of food ne- 
cessary to support this enormous mass, we must 
likewise consider the vast quantity of water which 
he needs. No country but that of the Shangalla, 
which he possesses, deluged with six months' rain, 
and full of large and deep basons, made in the 
living rock, and shaded by dark woods from eva- 
poration, or watered by large and deep rivers, 
which never fall low or to a state of dryness, can 
supply the vast draughts of this monstrous crea- 
ture : but it is not for drinking alone that he fre- 
quents wet and marshy places; large, fierce, and 
strong as he is, he must submit to prepare himself 
ao-ainst the weakest of all adversaries. The ojreat 
consumption he constantly makes of food and 
water necessarily confine him to certain limited 
spaces; for it is not every place thgt can maintain 
