SINGLE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. Ill 
three pounds of sugar, besides hay and green 
plants; lie also drank large quantities of water 
In his disposition lie was very peaceable, readily 
suffering all parts of his body to be touched. 
When he was hungry, or was struck by any person, 
he became mischievous, and nothing would ap- 
pease him but food. He was not at this time taller 
than a young cow. 
A rhinoceros brought from Atcham, in the 
dominions of the King of Ava, was exhibited in 
1748, at Paris. It was very tame, gentle, and even 
caressing ; was fed principally on hay and corn, 
and was much delighted with sharp or prickly 
plants, and the thorny branches of trees. The at- 
tendants frequently gave him branches that had 
very sharp and strong thorns on them ; but he 
bent and broke them in his mouth without seem- 
ing in the least incommoded. It is true they 
sometimes drew blood from tbe mouth and tongue, 
“ but that/* says father Le Comte, who gives 
us the description, might even render them more 
palatable, and those little wounds might serve only 
to cause a sensation similar to that excited by salt, 
pepper, or mustard, on ours/' 
As an equivalent for a very dull sight. Dr* 
Parsons remarks, that this animal has an acute 
and most attentive ear. It will listen with a deep 
and long continued attention to any kind of noise ; 
and although it be eating, lying down, or obeying 
any pressing demands of nature, it will raise its 
head, and listen till the noise ceases. 
The rhinoceros is said to run with great swift- 
ness, and from his strength and impenetrable co- 
vering, is capable of rushing with resistless 
violence through woods and obstacles of every 
kind ; the smaller trees bending like twigs as he 
passes them. In his general habits and manner 
of feeding he resembles the elephant ; residing in 
