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Asia - South Asia - India |
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History |
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Asian Rhino Species |
Calcutta in 1837. Near Cossipore is a house with large grounds belonging to a Hindoo. We went into the grounds one evening to look at his pet rhinoceros. There were four or five of these curious creatures, walking about tame and grazing or rather grubbing in the earth for roots. Their keeper sat by, but their office was only to watch that their charge did not wander away. The animals were perfectly tame and allowed us to pat them, they followed their keepers and are quite harmless. - Note says that this was house of perhaps Raja Buddynath Roy's menagerie, which is still remembered by "Chiriyamore".
[extract from Lawrence 1837]
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Calcutta in the 19th century: Company's days
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