RHINOCEROS. 
Destitute of any appetite for flesh, it mo- 
lests not the smallest animals ; and, having lit- 
tle reason to fear the largest, lives amicably 
with all. This pacific disposition renders 
doubtful all accounts of it's frequent combats 
with the elephant. Such contests, it should 
seem, must necessarily be very rare, since there 
k no offensive disposition on either side, Pli- 
ny is the first naturalist who has mentioned 
these coniiicls ; merely, perhaps, from having 
seen these animals compelled to fight in the 
barbarous spedtacles of the Romans. 
The method of taking the Rhinoceros, Is 
chleiiy by watching till it is found sleeping, 
■when the hunters destroy it with fire-arms; 
and, if there happens to be a cub, it is seized 
and tamed. It is sometimes taken in pit-falls, 
covered with green branches, dug in those paths 
which this animal makes in it's way from the 
forest to a river. 
• The flesh of the Rhinoceros is much re- 
lished by the Indians, the Negroes, and the 
Hottentots. It is said to be well- flavoured, 
but 
