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thighs, are folds that hang loose, and appear at a distance like 
cloth housings dangling over it. It hears more resemblance to 
the Horse than to any other creature. As the Horse has a large 
stomach, so has this animal ; as the pastern of the Horse is com- 
posed of a single bone, so also is that of the Rhinoceros. It is more 
I! furious than the Elephant, and cannot be rendered so tame and 
obedient. There are numbers of them in the jungles of Peshauar 
and Hashuagar, as well as between the river Sind and Behreh in 
the jungles. In Hindustan, too, I frequently killed the Rhino- 
ceros. It strikes powerfully with its koru, with which, in the 
course of these hunts, many Men and many Horses were gored. 
In one hunt it tossed with its horn, a full spear’s length, the 
Horse of a young man named Maksud, whence he got the name 
of Rhinoceros Maksud.”* 
Again, in the course of his narrative, he states, a We continued 
our march till we came near Bekram, and there halted. ISText 
morning we continued halting in the same station, and I went out 
i to hunt the Rhinoceros.” And again, “We crossed the Sia Ob” 
(black water), “in front of Bekram, and formed our ring lower 
down the river. When we had gone a short way, a man came 
after us with notice that a Rhinoceros had entered a little wood near 
Bekram, and that they had surrounded the wood and were waiting 
for us. We immediately proceeded towards the wood at full 
! gallop, and cast a ring round it. Instantly on our raising the 
shout, the Rhinoceros issued out into the plain, and tooFtts^uightr- 
Humaiun, and those who had come from the same quarter, never 
having seen a Rhinoceros before, were greatly amused. They 
| followed it for nearly a kos” (two English miles), “shot many 
i arrows at it, and finally brought it down. This Rhinoceros did not 
j make a good set at any person or any horse. They afterward killed 
| another Rhinoceros. I had often amused myself with conjecturing 
how an Elephant and Rhinoceros would behave if brought to face 
| each other. On this occasion the elephant-keepers brought out the 
; Elephants, so that one Elephant fell right in with the Rhinoceros. 
* Some of the royal Emperor Baber’s remarks are amusingly correct. Thus, of 
the common large Indian Frogs ( Rana tigrina ), he remarks, “ The Frogs of Hindustan 
are worthy of notice. Though of the same species as ” (i.e., akin to) “ our own, 
they will run six or seven guz ” (twelve or fourteen feet) “ on the face of the water.” 
During our long residence in India, we have known more than one naturalist traveller 
to have been at once struck with this peculiarity. — Ed. 
