282 TRAVELLERS FROM MASHOW. [1820, 
chane, who joined us, said he passed as many in 
the morning, travelling in the same direction. 
They thus migrate every winter, from the high 
lands in the north to the neighbourhood of the 
Malalareen, where the land is lower and the 
winter milder. 
We met a party of poor people from Mashow, 
both men and women, with four pack-oxen. 
They were travelling to the nations in the north, 
seeking for employment in thrashing out their 
corn. They travelled in the track of our wag- 
gons, when going up the country, which would 
in time become a beaten path, and save much in- 
convenience to succeeding travellers. We passed 
two rhinoceroses, feeding on the side of a low 
hill to the right, the same probably we had seen 
in that place when going up. The one was a 
huge animal, the other considerably smaller- 
Some of our people approached very near to 
them with their muskets, but the animals retired. 
Though the rhinoceros be one of the most fero- 
cious of animals, it possesses some fear of man. 
There is a brown bird, about the size of a thrush, 
called the rhinoceros' bird, from its perching 
upon those animals and picking off the bush- 
lice which fix on him, and from which he has 
no means to extricate himself. This little crea- 
ture performs the same kind service to the 
elephant. 
