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SCENES IN INDIA. 
the growth of ages, afford but an imperfect pro- 
tection. 
These forests, which cover the bases of the hills, are 
filled with all kinds of game, especially pea-fowl, and 
it is a beautiful sight to behold those splendid birds come 
at sunrise from the deep recesses of the woods, as 
they do in large flocks, and completely cover the val- 
leys. The wild elephant is found in the lower regions 
of the mountains, and so is the rhinoceros, though less 
frequently. Of the latter animal we were fortunate 
enough to obtain a view, which is by no means a 
usual thing, as it is not gregarious like the elephant, 
and therefore much more rarely met with. We had 
turned the angle of a hill that abutted upon a nar- 
row stream, when, on the opposite side of the rivulet, 
we saw a fine male rhinoceros; it was standing 
near the edge of the water with its head slightly 
bent, as if it had been just slaking its thirst in the 
cooling stream. It stood, apparently with great com- 
posure, about two hundred yards above us, in an open 
vista of the wood. Mr. Daniell, under the protection 
of a lofty intervening bank, was able to approach 
sufficiently near to make a perfect sketch of it ; after 
which, upon a gun being fired, it deliberately walked 
off into the jungle. It did not appear in the least in- 
timidated at the sight of our party, which remained at 
some distance, nor at all excited by the discharge of 
the 'gun. 
There are two species of this animal, the bicornis 
and the unicornis ; the latter supposed to be the uni- 
corn of scripture. The former is, I believe, peculiar 
to Africa: it is never known in India, where the 
