199 
1862 .] Corresponded ce. 
animal was shot by Sir J. Barlow, Bt., (then Mr. Barlow.) in the 
Jessore district, and his people brought the carcass to Calcutta by 
Tolly’s nulla. It was conveyed to the Mint, and was there prepared 
as a skeleton by Mr. W. E. Templeton (subsequently employed as a 
taxidermist by the Society) for the late James Prinsep, who after¬ 
wards presented it in the name of Mr. Barlow for the Society’s 
museum.* 
Baber’s account of the Rhinoceros, as given in Mr. Erskine’s 
translation, is as follows :— 
In his notice of the “ animals peculiar to Hindustan, after describ¬ 
ing the Elephant, he remarks— 
“ The Rhinoceros is another. This also is a huge animal. Its 
bulk is equal to that of three Buffaloes. The opinion prevalent in 
our countries, that a Rhinoceros can lift an Elephant on its horn, is 
probably a mistake. It has a single horn over its nose, upwards of 
a span in length ; but I never saw one of two spans. Out of one of 
the largest of these horns 1 had a drinking-vessel made and a dice-box, 
and about three or four fingers’ bulk of it might be left. Its hide is 
very thick. If it be shot at with a powerful bow, drawn up to the 
arm-pit with much force, and if the arrow pierces at all, it enters only 
three or four fingers’ breadth. They say, however, that there are 
parts of his skin that may be pierced and the arrows enter deep. On 
the sides of its two shoulder-blades, and of its two thighs, are folds 
that hang loose, and appear at a distance like cloth-housings dang_ 
ling over it. It hears more resemblance to the Horse than to any 
other animal. As the Horse has a large stomach, so has this :t as the 
pastern of a Horse is composed of a single hone, so also is that of 
the Rhinoceros. It is more ferocious than the Elephant, and cannot 
be rendered so tame or obedient. There are numbers of them in the 
jungles of Peshawer and Hashnaghar, as well as between the river 
Sind and Behreh in the jungles. In Hindustan, too, they abound on 
the hanks of the river Sirwu. In the course of my expeditions into 
Hindustan, in the jungles of Peshawer and Hashnaghar, I frequent¬ 
ly killed the Rhinoceros. It strikes powerfully with its horn, with 
which, in the course of these hunts, many men, and many horses, 
* I find that, in the Catalogue of the mammalia in the India House Museum, 
(p. 195), the habitat of Rur. sostdajcus is set down as “ Java exclusively 1” 
f Linnaeus remarks—“ Viscera ad equina acceduni' 1 
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