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THE LIVING WORLD. 
nothing but a lucky shot prevented the change of an equestrian into a pedes¬ 
trian. Once, when one of a couple was wounded, the unharmed one returned 
and, adjusting his pace to that of his companion, walked off in his company. 
The next day the wounded rhinoceros was found lying dead, while its compan¬ 
ion stood guard over the body. Upon receiving bullet wounds it fell repeatedly, 
but until its strength was utterly exhausted it always struggled to its feet 
and again charged upon the hunters. 
UNGULATES.—HORSES. 
The Tarpan, or Wild Horse (.Equus caballus ), is found throughout the 
steppes of Asia, and of the Oural Mountain region. These uninviting prairies 
RHINOCEROS EIGHT. 
are, except when carpeted with green and illuminated by flowering shrubs, awe¬ 
inspiring from their seeming want of limits, and excite dread from the wearying 
sameness and unattractive barrenness which surrounds one on all sides. Think 
of the ocean as frozen, but with the ice covered with dust, which from time to 
time is hurled hither and thither by fierce blasts of wind; think of the deso- 
lateness of such motionless water, the dreary sameness of the prospect, and the 
unreasoning terror inspired by mere immensity, and we may form some slight 
idea of these terrestrial seas. Still even here is animal life, and life so consti* 
tuted as to flourish where even the imagination of man sinks awe-stricken and 
exhausted; even here is Divine wisdom displayed in peopling these vast realms 
