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YEETEBRATA. 
INDIAN RHINOCEROS. 
has only a few hairs, which are stiff and bri&tly,, and mostly confined to the edges of the ears an4 
the end of the tail. 
These animals are found in the same regions of the Old World as those inhabited by the ele- 
phants ; they live like them in the forests, and feed exclusively upon coarse herbage and the leafy 
twigs of trees and shrubs. They appear, as a general rule, to be peaceable animals, unless irri- 
tated ; in this case they charge with great fury upon their enemy, holding the head down, so as 
to present the point of the horn toward him. They are generally hunted merely for the sake of 
sport, but the natives of the countries inhabited by them kill them for the flesh; walking-sticks 
of great beauty are cut out of their thick hides, and their horns are worked into boxes an^ 
