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horned species, the fore-horn is so very ranch elongated and curves 
so far backward that it is difficult to imagine how it could be put 
to any service. An experienced sporting writer remarks of one of 
the single-horned species, that “ it is a mistake to suppose that the 
horn is their most formidable weapon. I thought so myself at one 
t im e,” he adds, “but have long been satisfied that it is merely 
used in defence, and not as an instrument of offence. It is with 
their cutting-teeth” (lower canines) “that they wound so des- 
perately. I killed a large male,” this writer asserts, “ which was 
cut and slashed all over its body with fighting ; the wounds were 
all fresh, and as cleanly made as if they had been done with a razor 
— the horn could not have been used here. Another one he had 
wounded stood, and out of pure rage cut at the jungle right and 
left, exactly as a Boar uses his tusks. A medical' friend had a 
man, who was sauntering through the forest, Actually disembowelled 
by a Rhinoceros. He examined the wound immediately, and I 
heard him say afterwards that if it had been done with the sharpest 
instrument, it could not have been cleaner cut. Such, then, could 
not have been done with the horn.” * 
In Java the R. sondaicus is reputed to be rather a timid animal ; 
but an instance is related of one attacking a sailor’s watering party 
in that island ; f and the full-grown Harrow Rhinoceros before men- 
tioned (as standing four feet five inches in height) had killed a man 
and a boy some days before he was shot. This smaller One-horned 
Rhinoceros appeares to be diffused more or less abundantly over 
the whole Indo-Chinese region (or the countries lying eastward 
of the Bay of Bengal), and through the Malayan peninsula, but it 
does not appear to inhabit Sumatra. In Java, according to Pro- 
fessor Reinhardt, it is “ found everywhere in the most elevated 
regions, ascending with an astonishing swiftness even to the 
highest tops of the mountains.” Dr. Horsfield also notices that 
“ it prefers high situations, but is not limited to a particular region 
or climate, its range extending from the limit of the ocean to the 
summits of mountains of considerable elevation. Its retreats are 
discovered by deeply excavated passages, which it forms along 
the declivities of mountains and hills. I found these occasionally 
of great depth and extent.” Of one of the single-horned species 
of this genus, an observer remarks, “ It is surprising to see how 
* Bengal Sporting Magazine , 1836, part ii., p. 158. f Zoologist , p. 1328. 
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