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RHINOCEROS. 
generally struck with the greatest correctness. 
According to the last mentioned writer, the 
Rhinoceros (and he speaks, we believe, of the R. 
Indicus) is a much more active animal than what 
he is represented to be by others, possessing great 
acuteness of smell, great rapidity of motion, and 
accompanied by a vivacity, such as a cursory 
view of the animal would by no means suggest. 
He writes also of this animal making wanton 
attacks on the Elephant whenever he has an 
opportunity, and mentions the circumstance of 
the latter being found with the belly torn 
open. An instance is, at the same time, related, 
as well known, of a Rhinoceros, which even ren- 
dered the roads impassable by attacking travellers, 
or those who passed near his haunts ; and he relates 
an attack upon a sporting company, which was 
made by the same animal in the close of the year 
1 788, as generally known to the army and resi- 
dents of the district. “ Two officers belonging 
to the troops cantoned at Dunapore, near Patna, 
went down the river towards Monghyr, to shoot 
and hunt. They had encamped in the vicinity of 
Derriapore, and had heard some reports of a 
Gheudah, or Rhinoceros, having attacked some 
travellers many miles off. One morning, just as 
they were rising about day break, to go in quest 
of game, they heard a violent uproar ; and on 
looking out, found that a Rhinoceros was goring 
