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procured, appear to be merely the longer horns of the two-liorned 
species separated from the smaller one. There is, however, another 
animal in the forests of Sumatra never yet noticed, which, in size 
and character, nearly resembles the Bhinoceros, and which is said to 
bear a single horn. This animal is distinguished by having a narrow 
whitish belt encircling the body, and is known to the natives of the 
interior by the name of Tennu. It has been seen at several places ; 
and the descriptions given of it by people, quite unconnected with 
each other, coincide so nearly, that no doubt can be entertained of 
the existence of such an animal. It is said to resemble in some par¬ 
ticulars the Buffalo, and in others the Badalc or Bhinoceros. A spe¬ 
cimen has not yet been procured ; hut I have several persons on the 
look out, and have little doubt of soon being able to forward a more 
accurate description from actual examination. 
“ It should be remarked,” continues Baffles, “that the native 
name, Tennu , has, until lately, been understood bo belong to the Tapir. 
It is so applied at Malacca, and by some of the people at Bencoolen. 
In the interior, however, where the animals are best known, the 
white-banded Bhinoceros is called Tennu , and the Tapir Gindol, and 
by some Bahi Alu. It is not impossible, that, as both animals have 
white hands, the names may have been confounded by people little 
in the habit of seeing either, and deriving their information solely 
from report. In a country like Sumatra, where the inhabitants, in 
a great measure shut out from general communication, are divided 
into an infinity of* tribes, speaking different dialects, a perfect con¬ 
sistency or uniformity of nomenclature cannot he expected, and it is 
not always easy to reconcile the synonymy.” (Lin. Tr. XIII, 269.) 
It naturally occurs to the mind, that, if the Tennu really exists, 
it would long ere this have been discovered, in all probability, in 
the neighbouring Malayan peninsula: but how little is even now 
known of the great animals inhabiting that peninsula ! The late Dr. 
Cantor, when he wrote his Catalogue of the Vertebrated Animals of 
the Malayan peninsula, was unaware of the existence there of Bos 
sondaicus in addition to B. oatjrtjs, only includes a two-horned 
Bhinoceros on the testimony of the Malays, and whether the Ele- 
phas suMAT ranu s occurs on the mainland of Asia (like the Tapir 
and the two insular species of Bhinoceros, the Bos sondaicus and 
others,) is still undetermined. It is possible enough, though doubt- 
