Sir Everard Home on a new species of rhinoceros, &c. 39 
the London Missionary Society, and is deposited in their 
Museum in the Old Jewry. The following account is taken 
from the memoranda with which Mr. Campbell very oblig- 
ingly furnished me. 
“ The animal was shot about two hundred and fifty, or 
three hundred miles, up from the westward of De la Goa 
Bay, six miles west of the city Mashow, and above a thou- 
sand miles in nearly a straight direction from the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
“ The country from whence the rhinoceros comes, contains 
no thick woods, or forests, but is covered with separate 
clumps of trees, like a nobleman’s park in England. In tra- 
velling, you always appear to be approaching a wood ; but 
as you advance, the trees are discovered to stand at a distance 
from one another, or rather in little clumps. 
“ This animal feeds upon grass, and bushes ; is not carnivo- 
rous; and not gregarious; seldom more than a pair are seen 
together, or in the vicinity of one another. Mr. Campbell’s 
people wounded another of the same description. When 
enraged it runs in a direct line, ploughing the ground with 
its horn. The hide is not welted, is of a dark brown colour, 
smooth, and without hair.” 
The skull which Mr. Campbell has brought to England, 
fortunately has the horns in their natural situation. As the 
annexed drawing is made upon a scale, and the parts are so 
clearly exposed, it is hardly necessary to add a verbal de- 
scription. It will be sufficient to say, that he skull is thirty-six 
inches long. The long horn, thirty-six inches ; the circum- 
ference at the base, is twenty-four inches. There are horns 
