il4 TWO-iR)HNED RHINOCEROS, 
being length one d out so as to increase his power of 
laying hold with it, in the same manner as the 
elephant does with his trunk. With this lip > and 
the assistance of his tongue, he pulls down the 
upper branches, which have most leaves, and 
these he devours first. Having stripped the tree 
of its branches, he does not immediately abandon 
it ; but placing bis snout as low in the trunk as he 
finds his horns will enter, he rips up the body of 
the tree, and reduces it to thin pieces like so 
many laths ; and when he has thus prepared it, 
he embraces as much of it as he can in lii$ 
monstrous jaws, and twists it round with as much 
ease as an ox would do a root of celery, or any 
small plant. 
When pursued, and in fear, lie possesses an 
astonishing degree of swiftness, considering his 
size, the apparent unwieldiness of his body, his 
great weight before, and the shortness of his legs, 
lie has a kind of trot, which, after a few minutes, 
increases in a great proportion, and takes in a 
great distance ; but this is to be understood witli 
a degree of moderation. It is not true that in a 
plain he beats the horse in swiftness. I have passed 
him with ease, and seen many w orse mounted do 
the same ; and though it is certainly true that a 
horse can very seldom come up with him, this is 
ow ing to his cunning, and not to his sw iftness. 
He makes constantly from wood to wood, and 
forces himselt into the thickest parts of them. 
The trees that are dead or drv. are broken down 
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as with a cannon shot, and fall behind him afcd 
on his sides in all directions. Others that are 
more pliable, greener, or fuller of sap, are bent 
back bv his weight, and the velocity of his mo- 
tions. And after he has passed, restoring them- 
selves like a green branch to their natural posi- 
tion, they often sweep the incautious pursuer and 
