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THE SECOND RHINOCEROS. 
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and the head in profile at the end of the chapter. The animal lay 
in a position very favorable for this purpose ; having fallen on its 
knees, and remaining nearly in the same attitude as when alive. 
The first view of this beast, suggested the idea of an enormous 
hog, to which, besides in its general form, it bears some outward 
resemblance in the shape of its skull, the smallness of its eyes, and 
the proportionate size of its ears : but in its shapeless clumsy legs and 
feet, it more resembles the hippopotamus and elephant. It is, in 
fact, in many less obvious particulars, closely allied to all these ; and 
by later naturalists, has been well arranged in the same class with 
them.* 
Its length over the forehead and along the back, from the ex- 
tremity of the nose to the insertion of the tail, was eleven feet and two 
inches, of English measure ; but in a direct line, not more than nine 
feet three inches. The tail, which at its extremity was complanated, 
or flattened vertically, measured twenty inches ; and the circumfe- 
rence of the largest part of the body, eight feet and four inches. On 
examining its mouth I found, agreeably to common opinion, no 
incisive, or fore, teeth in either jaw: in the upper jaw on each side, 
were five large grinders, and a smaller one at the back ; but in the 
lower, there were six grinders besides the small back tooth. The ink 
which I had brought with me, being nearly dried up, I was obflged 
to write this description in my memorandum-book, with the animal's 
own blood, f 
* Of this species of rhinoceros, we shot nine in the course of these travels ; besides 
a smaller one. This has been presented to the British Museum. 
f This Rhinoceros is of the species already described by Sparrman, under the name 
of Rh. hicarnis. But other species with two horns, having been since discovered, the 
name of Rh. Africanus has been substituted by Cuvier. And as I have subsequently dis- 
covered another species in Africa, also with two horns, this name would now, according 
to that principle of nomenclature, require again to be changed. 
ITie new species here alluded to, I have named Rhinoceros simus, (" Bulletin des 
Sciences;" livr, de Juin 1817, p. 96.) from the flattened form of its nose and mouth, by 
which, and by its greater size, and the proportions of its head, it is remarkably distin- 
guished from the other African species. A more complete account of this, is reserved for 
a fliture opportunity, as it belongs to a part of my journal not included in the present 
volume. In the mean time the work above named, may be referred to for a figure of it, 
and for some further particulars. 
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