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and prey, as the lyon, leopard, beare, wolfe, tiger, and the like; but to 
others, as the horse, asse, oxe, sheep, &c. which feede not upon the life 
and blood of the weaker, but of the grasse and hearbage of the field, 
harmlesse and gentle, ready to succour them, when they be any way 
distressed. Hee hath a short home growing from his nose, being in 
continual enmity with the elephant before hee encounter him, he 
sharpeneth it against a stone.” (Lord Mayor's Pageants , ed. Percy 
Society, vol. 9, p. 71.) 
The enmity between these two animals, the elephant and 
rhinoceros, is a myth of ancient growth, which has sur¬ 
vived to recent times. The amiability of the rhinoceros 
towards his weaker comrades is a trait of character for 
which this animal is indebted to the imagination of 
Hey wood. 
Mr. Timbs, in his Eccentricities of the Animal Creation , 
1869, tells us that a specimen of the one-horned variety 
was sent from India, to Emmanuel, King of Portugal, in 
the year 1513 :— 
“ The sovereign made a present of it to the pope ; but the animal 
being seized during the passage with a fit of fury, occasioned the loss 
of the vessel in which it was transported.” 
The first rhinoceros brought to England was in the year 
1684. It is noticed by Evelyn in his Diary as the rhino¬ 
ceros or unicorn. 
Another frequenter of the mudbanks of rivers in the 
Hippopota- the Hippopotamus, is thus described by 
mus - a Portuguese who travelled in Ethiopia and 
along the southern coast of Africa :— 
“In these rivers are many zouo or zoo , so they call the river-horses; 
greater then two of our horses together, with thick and short hinder- 
legs, having five clawes on each fore-foot, and foure on the hinder-foot; 
the footing large as it were of an elephant, the mouth wide and full of 
teeth, some of which are remarkable, each above two palmes or spans 
long, the two lower straight up, and those above turned like a bores 
tusks, all foure being above a great spanne eminent from the mouth. 
The head is as big as of three oxen. Their hides are much thicker 
