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were gored. In one hunt, it tossed with its horn, a full spear’s 
length, the horse of a young man named Maksud, whence he got the 
name of Rhinoceros Maksud.”* 
Again, in the course of his narrative, he states—- 
“ We continued our march till we came near Bekram and then 
halted. Next morning we continued halting in the same station, and 
I went out to hunt the Rhinoceros. 
“ We crossed the Siah-Ab, in front of Bekram, and formed our 
ring lower down the river. When we had gone a short way, a man 
came after us with notice, that a Rhinoceros had entered a little 
wood near Bekram, and that they had surrounded the wood, and 
were waiting for us. We immediately proceeded towards the wood 
at full gallop, and east a ring round it. Instantly on our raising the 
shout, the Rhinoceros issued out into the plain, and took to flight. 
Humaiun, and those who had come from the same quarter, never 
having seen a Rhinoceros before, were greatly amused. They fol¬ 
lowed it for nearly a kos, shot many arrows at it, and finally brought 
it down. This Rhinoceros did not make a good set at any person, 
or any horse. They afterwards killed another Rhinoceros. I had 
often amused myself with conjecturing how an Elephant and Rhi¬ 
noceros would behave if brought to face each other ; on this occasion 
the elephant-keepers brought out the Elephants, so that one Ele¬ 
phant fell right in with the Rhinoceros. As soon as the elephant- 
drivers put their beasts in motion, the Rhinoceros would not come 
up, hut immediately ran off in another direction.” 
The description which Baber gives of a mailed single-horned Rhi¬ 
noceros is unmistakeable; but it still seems passing strange that 
these huge pachyderms should have been killed with arrows. 
E. Blyth. 
* Some of Baber’s observations are amusingly correct. Thus, of the common 
large Indian Frogs (Rana tigbina), he remarks—“The Frogs of Hindustan are 
worthy of notice. Though of the same species 83 [/. e. akin to] our own, yet 
they will run six or seven guz [’twelve or fourteen feet] on the face of the water.” 
I have known more than one European naturalist-traveller to have been at once 
struck with this peculiarity. 
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