The rhinoceros is relatively rare.
Badeue
According to Volz, both one-horned and two-horned rhinoceroses occur on Sumatra.
Volz found the rhinoceros on the northern slopes of the Goudberg, the dorado for large game.
Bada
The teunoembo (teuneumbo, senoembo, also gedaboehon, kenoemnoekan, dedaboekan and aloe-aloe) is a trap used to kill elephant and rhinoceros. On the side of a track used by the pachyderm, a long stick is placed vertically and secured tightly by some poles driven into the ground. On the upper side the sticks are connected by rotans. Then a rotan is stretched just above the ground, in order that the animal will kick against it when he follows the track. This rotan is stretched through the sticks upwards where it is attached to a heavy, pointed, shap knife. Attached to the knife is a long and heavy pole. When the animal touches the rotan, the knife falls down and is driven deep into the neck. The hunters are hidden nearby and follow and continue to wound the animal until it drops, when it is killed with knoves. In case of the rhinoceros, some people will put knives on the track in order that these will cut open the belly.
1922, Sumatra, the price of one horn varies from 30 to 50 guilders, the white kind is much more valuable
Sumatra. Medicine called L? Soemboe Badeue, which is water in which a rhinoceros horn was soaked. It is drunk as a medicine against witchcraft.
The animals are solitary or sometimes in pairs in the deep forest.
The horn (soemboe) of the rhinoceros is exported in small quantities to Pinang. It is only bought by the Chinese.
