TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
brated traveller tells us, " it clothes itself in a 
kind of case, which defends it from it's adver- 
sary for the following day." But, it seems^ 
while thus engaged, the pleasure which it 
receives from rolling in the mud, added to the 
darkness of the night, depriving it of it's usual 
vigilance and attention, the hunters steal se- 
cretly near, and pierce it with their javelins 
in the belly, where the wound is mortal.'* 
. The peculiar manner of Mr. Bruce's de- 
scriptions is apparent in the following extracts. 
Speaking of the Rhinoceros's method of 
feeding in the vast forests of Africa, he says — ■ 
" With his lip, and the assistance of his 
tongue, he pulls down the upper branches, 
which have most leaves, and these he devours 
first. Having stripped the tree of it's branches, 
he does not therefore abandon it : but, placing 
his snout as low in the trunk as he finds his 
horns will enter, he rips up the body of the 
tree, and reduces it to thin pieces, like so many 
laths; and, when he has thus prepared it,, 
he embraces as much of it as he can in his 
monstrous jaws, and twists it round with as 
jiiuch ease as an Ox would do a root of celery ! " 
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