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As soon as the Elephant-drivers pnt their beasts in motion ; the 
Rhinoceros would not come up, but immediately ran off in another 
direction.” In a modern Rhinoceros hunt the Elephants are too 
apt to turn tail, and the great Indian Rhinoceros sometimes 
charges them ; but we remember no instance of an Elephant being 
wounded by an infuriated Rhinoceros. 
“ In the jungles round Chunar,” remarks the founder of the 
dynasty of the Great Mogul, “ there are many Elephants and 
elsewhere he asserts that the Elephant “ inhabits the district of 
Kalpe” (or Culpee), “ and the higher you advance from there 
towards the east, the more do the wild Elephants increase in 
number.” Gpon which his able translator remark justly, in a note 
penned more than half a century ago, that “ the improvement of 
Hindustan since Baber’s time must be prodigious. The wild 
Elephant is now confined to the forests under Himala, and to the 
ghats of Malabar. A wild Elephant near Karrah, Manikpore, or 
Kalpe, is a thing, at the present day, totally unknown. May not 
their familiar existence in these countries down to Baber’s days 
be considered as rather hostile to the accounts given of the super- 
abundant population of Hindustan in remote times ?” 
The description which Baber gives of a Mailed and Single-horned. 
Rhinoceros is unmistakable ; but it still seems passing strange that 
these huge Pachyderms should have been killed with arrows. At 
the present day the Rhinoceros has long been extirpated, with 
not so much as a tradition of it remaining in all the parts where 
Baber mentions its former occurrence ; but in the desert region 
north-west of Delhi the Lion was numerous within the memory of 
living man, and there we learn that already hardly a tradition 
remains of this formidable animal as a former and comparatively 
recent inhabitant of the extensive desert tract in question. 
Ceratorhinus , Gray. This genus is founded on the Two- 
horned Rhinoceros, C. sumatranus, a comparatively small animal, 
which certainly never much exceeds four feet in height ; but its 
horns sometimes attain a beautiful development, more especially 
the anterior one, which is much longer than the other, slender 
except at base, and has a graceful curvature backward, more or 
less decided in different individuals ; the other, or posterior horn, 
is not placed close behind the first, as in the different two-horned 
African species, but at a considerable distance from it, and it has 
