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The writer of "Stadies in the Zoological Gardens in the Times has the following to say
on the rhinoceros -
month. It is doubtless this constant associa
8-erally regarded as more or less inoffensive until wounded or attacked; and in regard to the African black species the fact probably is that there is great variety of disposition among in dividuals; and it may even be, as Colonel Pattemon says, ibat the same roimal. ls' 'one day savage and tamed the next.'
**It is almost certain that many of the cases manifestations of the animal's stupidity-what of farocity which are reported are no more than
"But if mas alone with his modern arma"
WAS
Op
every
there any
Lerioo diminution of their numbers until some 40 years ago. Recent discoveries have shown that the white rhinoceros is sòl quite as near to extinction as
its black cousio are undoubtedly doomed, un was supposed a few years since; but both it and
bands upon '—and words, seeing how 'noarly the fact apparently being that it strikus with ita the white rhinocaros has come to being extinct, lower side tuskas, like a boar; and with "thons," Many other authorities, howevery speak of according to Colonel Follok,it can inflict a the animal's exceeding and gratuitous fazon | fearfully clean and deep cut, and an elephant city. Gorda Cumming long 1 the black rhino.once ripped by one will never go near the divergence of opinion appears in some Caros extremely fierce and dangerous'; and rhinoceros again." "It is difficult to think of rhinoceroses and points to extend to matters of fact on which disement, stands enomy to say beas, it is enough. hippopotami ‘apart. Fix your mind on the crepancy would soon unnecessary. Thus Mr. It is pitiable to read of the enormous num. Nenmand says that the Ndorobo have far less bers of rhinoceroses, both black and white, hippopotamus, and the ugly born of a thing fear of rhinoceroses then of elephants, white which at one time were to be found over large ceros comes inevitably lifting into view Co Mr. F. J. Jackson, speaking also of natives of tracts in Africa, when, though the animal does sider a rhinoceros and the other squelches io, East Africa, avers that as a role they are more not congregate in herds-Sir Cornwallis Harziu with dauk weeds streaming from its cavemo, afraid of a rhinoceros than of either as elephant mentions seeing 22 in balf a mile-as many as or a buffalo. The Asiatic, rhinoceroses, of a hundred and fifty might be met with in a [705tion of the two that is responsible for the comwhich three different species are recognised, are day's march, and one of the inconveniences of
mon belief that the rhinoceros is almost an amphibious animal, a thing necessarily of the
making camp was the decessity of first driving swamps and river bunks. A wrder on natural
away the over-inquisitive and not always tractable brutes which lurked b.stury, who has devoted him ell largely to
band. Nor, except in certain districts, exposing the errurs of others, speaks of the African rhinoceros al spending its time in 'some secluded swimp,' with no other companion but water-low), or among the squatby brakes of the Nile'; and he FIRST FLOOR OF No. 15 Des Vœux ROAD
tells how the Romans dragged it out from its CENTRAL
Nubian fens to delight the crowds in the (opposite the P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s office.) amphitheatre. As a matter of fact, either is mistaken for a charge being but the bewil-less the establishment of came presaves suc. dered rush of a frightened beast endeavouring ceeds in maintaining them in a semi-wild staid. species of African rhinoceros, the black or the
to get away. With its miserable sight the Perhaps it is inevitable that they should go. white, frequents damp country, and the former rhinoceros is usually made aware of the ap- The present species are but a small fraction at least is said to be generally out of health in
proach of danger, if at all, other by the warn of the number of kinds which existed in formor wet seasons. The dry, barren wastos ofing of the rhinocores bird which, haunting the ages, and, like the elephant, the rhinoceros is British East Africa," says Mr. Neumans beast for the sake of the licks which infest it, plainly an anachronism to-day. Often have i seem to suit it best, and the open said plains acts as a sentinel. In the latter case the ani sat upon a ridge, writes Mr. Cotton Oswell, of Masailand and Laikipia. It is true that the rhinoceros likes to drink once in twenty four mal probably.bas no idea from what quarter it and looked at them as they moved solemnly hours or so (and sometimes it visits water of
is threatened, and in the former it probably and clumsily on the plain below, wondering places that direction of the peril but vaguely, how they still came to be in this world,' appear. dawn as well as in the aveaing), wherefore it
All rhinoceroses seemingly run up wind whening, as they did so plaiuly, to be out of time. prefers to stay wishin, at most, a dezẹn 'miles of a lake or river; and many a thirsty traveller suddenly roused or alarmed; and it neces- to have belonged to a former state of things, and to have been forgétten when the change sarily follows that the first blind rush not
forgétien in Africa has welcomed meeting with a
seldom takes them straight at the object was made.?" rhinoceros, knowing to be a sure sign that the scent of which has disturbed them. watch was not many miles away, or has been
Thus many instances have been reported of led to a stream by following the great brute's their charging straight at pissing and peace- path through the scrub,
ful caravans, sometimes breaking through the line of porters, sometimes heading direct for one of the waggons; and whatever comes in the way of azbinoceros moving at full speed is likely to suffer. The most remarkable story of the kind is perhaps that of Colozel Patterson, who
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"The most extraordinary incident to coupec tion with rhinocéroses of which we have any record is doubtless the story of that full-grown black rhinoceros cow which went down to drink at the River, near its junction with the Tana, in British East Africa, and was suited and pulled under water by a crocodilo. The
A gang of 21 alaves, chained, neck and struggle was witnessed by Mr. Max Fleischneck as was the custom, was proceeding in maan, who was able to ge photographs of Indian file along a narrow path when a rhino- it in its various phaers, wh ch, together with
ceros suddenly charged out at right angles to n detailed account of the fight embodied in a them, impaled the contre man oa its hero and letter from Mr. Fleischmann, are givenga Mr. broke the necks of the remainder of the party Selous's' African Nature Notes and Reminis, by the suddenness of its rush," 6.45 pm; and 9.pm. 9.45 p.m. to 11.15 cences.. But for the fact that the thing was
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tradition, be diguified by the enemies which it mede, is hereditary autogonists being the lion, and the elephant.
"The old belief was that the rhinocorps whet seen, and for the evidence of these photographs, | ted its born upon a rock (or on agate, accord- no une probably would have believed thara |ing to Plixy) before, it began to fight; and had cocodile or any suber of crocodiles could it no majesty of its awa it would, in pastry and compass the death of a full-grown thinocesos; but the latter having beco seized by a hind leg when in shallow water, was unable to get a good fair pull on its antagonist, and was gradually dragged out into the stream until beyond its depth. And anything more horrible than the picture of the huge brute, who once it had disappeared beneath the blood-stained water, being torn to pieces, even as it drowned (for it is believed that before the end other crocodiles had been attracted by the struggle and they were probably swarming about it), it is not easy to conceive.
In the wastes of India, while the earh Beneath him groans, the elephant is seen,. His huge proboscis writhing, to'daly
The strong thinoceros, whose pondrous horn Is newly whatted on a rock.
"So Darwin, and again Glover
Go, stately lion, gel and thou,,with scales
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monly has no inconsiderable quantity of the in which the former came off victorious. soil of the neighbourhood clinging to its al- If we follow those writers who identify ready sufficiently wolovely person. There has the rhinoceros with the unicorn, then its here- been some discussion as to how the great blant ditary feud with the lion dates back to ages Loans on Mortgage of House Property, &c.
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ed among the worst tempered and most probably as purely fanciful a creature' at dangerous beasts in Regent's Park. The the phoenix or the hippogriff, the early young Indian rhinoceros from Nepal, presentpoets and naturalists, boot on joventing od by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, the the most fearsome beasts which their imagi- keeper con in-a¬measure overage and keep (nation could concoct, hitting as easily on at bay with a broom but no one takes liberties the idea of a straight-horned horse as they did with the larger Indian specimen presented by on that of a winged lion, or ag eagle clad in H.H, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar or with scale coat of mail. Some at least of the much- the female black rhinoceros from East Africa prized unicorn's horns' (so precious, when The cut of these Gar-
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Nor is the even more uscomely hairy-eared fashioned into drinking cups, for the detection of every descriptios can be made to | rhinoceros (also from India and best considered † of paison that one horn was 'worth a city') were ments is Superb and the order to any design required.
as only a variety of the Sumairan species) any horns of the parwhal. Both the existing Afri. Have been patronland by the Hongkong more sweet-tempered. This animal, the public can species of thinoceros and one of the thres Club-Hongkong Hotal, Telegraph, Co., newest colorings only. A. S. Watson & Co., Firms and other is informed by the label on its cage, was receive Asiatic are bicoraed, and rhinoceros ivory
stablishments in the Colony, to ed in exchange,' an anouncement which has (in itself a preposterous term)-is-s-substance-Bangkang Telegraph offica or direct to: 37 whom reference can be made as to the prompted Mr. Emanuel to romark that he does composed of agglutinated hairs. It je season- Hollywood Road, and floor, Superior Workmanship and Materials of the
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considers that 'the society got done over the not a shipoceros, the Rev. J. G. Wood, who deal. In the thinoceros, indeed, we see almost went into the subject thoroughly, luclining to the reductio ad absurdum of nature's principle identify the Hebrow rem, plausibly enough, of sacrificing beauty to utility; and this part with the Euge member of ¡he ox trịbo, the now cular creature is so frankly and universally extinct uran. unprepossessing that it seams upgenerous o science to call attention to sú trivial, if distinc¦ livo, a detail as thațis nas hairy ears,
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"The rhinoceros, then, need not shoulder the feuds of the unicorn ; and it họ bas say quarrel with lion orelephant he must settle it in his LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY, own person. But in truth 'the malled shine. ceros that of nothing recks' bus 'little to fear from any living thing but man, in spite of the one black rhinoceros which we know was killed by crocodiles and the fact, that, according to
"Of the tempar of the rhinoceros when at large accounts are curiously contradictory, the subject, so far as the American species are concerned, baring recently been wall thrashed out by Mr. Selous in the book already quoted, He himself considers the black rhinoceros to Mr. Cotton Oiwell, the male white rhinoceros „ba.! stupid and blandering' bat rarely inten. | has- sometimes been destroyed by byenas,
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Combats between two rhinoceroses have been often seen in Africa, when the object of each ap paars to be to hook his antagonist in the soft region around the throat ; but, though they fight dogged in and are sometimes badly iscerated about the face, Mr. Jackson thinks it 'highly improbable that they ever kill each other. AMERICAN SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY x 8.5. Alberto Trap from Vasice.. tansely stupid and marvellously blind." The Curiously enough, none of the Asistic species
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