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Ball, V., 1880. Jungle Life in India; or, the journeys and journals of an Indian geologist. London, Thos. De La Rue, pp. i-xv, 1-720
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Distribution |
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Indian Rhino |
[228] Rajmahal. At no very distant period the rhinoceros occurred in the vicinity of these hills, but there are none to be found south of the Ganges at the present day.
[570] In Simlia, on the Sokethel river, met a man. One of his ventures in his travelling days was a rhinoceros which he bought in Calcutta for a thousand rupees, and marched down at the rate of from six to eight miles a day, driving it, as he described it, like a cow before him. Finally he disposed of it to the Raja of jaipur for the fancy sum of 16000 rupees, which sum, howeverm he declared he was never paid, though fed on promises for several years.
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