176 ONE-HORNED SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS. 
times mounted on its back. It required copious 
supplies of water ; and, when not taking food, or 
intentionally roused by the natives, it generally 
placed itself in the large excavations, which its 
movements soon caused in the soft earth that 
covered the allotted space. 
“ The animal rapidly increased in size. In the 
year 1817, having been confined at Surracarta 
about nine or ten months, the dimensions, as 
already stated, were nine feet in length, and four 
feet three inches in height at the rump. In 1821 
it had acquired the height of five feet seven inches. 
This information I received from my friend Mr 
Stavers, who is now in England, on a visit from 
the interior of Java ; and he favoured me farther 
with the following details, which complete the 
history of the individual whose figure is annexed. 
Having considerably increased in size, the ditch 
of three feet in breadth was insufficient for con- 
fining it ; but, leaving the enclosure, it frequently 
passed to the dwellings of the natives, destroying 
the plantations of fruit trees, and culinary vege- 
tables, which always surround them. It likewise 
terrified those natives that accidentally met with 
it, and who were unacquainted with its appearance 
and habits. But it shewed no ill-natured disposi- 
tion, and readily allowed itself to be driven back 
to the enclosure like a Buffalo. The excessive 
excavations which it made by continually wallow- 
