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guide TO THE 
pair of the black-haired, two-horned Rhinoceros from 
Malacca, it was found necessary to divide the enclosure. 
The specimen of R. lasiotis is an adult female which 
was caught near Chittagong, on the estate of Begum 
Latifa Khatum of Ramu, and the following account of 
its capture appeared in the Englishman of the 17th 
June 1882 :— 
“ This rhinoceros was captured by the Begum’s retain¬ 
ers. A shikaree had gone out to hunt, and when he had 
reached some paddy fields, he was told by the ryots, 
who were there at work, that an animal had come out 
from the jungle, on to the fields, and that it was neither 
a gyal, a buffalo, nor an elephant. The shikaree at 
once sent a message to the Begum, asking that assistance 
might be sent to capture the animal, and, in a short time, 
a large number of people had arrived armed with sticks. 
The locality to which the beast had retired presented 
facilities for its capture, as it was a small isolated hill or 
teelah separated from the high range of mountains to the 
east. The shikaree arranged his men between the teelah 
and the main range with instructions not to allow the 
animal to escape in that direction, but that if it made 
for an adjoining jheeel, or for an open slope towards the 
village, it was to be allowed to pass by either of these 
ways, as it would be possible to noose it in the jheel, and 
to capture it if it went to the village. The animal, 
however, refused to show itself, and did not come out of 
the dense jungle, but the would-be-captors were aware 
that it was moving round the teelah, and at length the 
shikaree^ by climbing a tree, was able to make out that 
it was a rhinoceros. They then tied a number of ropes 
to the branches of the trees, letting them hang down as 
