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Champion, A. 1765. Journal. London, India Office Library, Home Miscellaneous Series 198: 293-294.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Asian Rhinos

p.148 Journal of Col. Alexander Champion (d.1823), 17 December 1765. H.M., vol. 198, pp. 293-294, India Office Library, London: Colonel Champion Papers, Home Miscellaneous Series, vol. 198 -
finally there was as crowning spectacle a fight between an elephant, which ran amok and a rhinocerous, but, as Champion notes, “as the Rhinoceros could not be moved there was no battle.” -
No preview of p.147 which should say where this was - Ghosh, Suresh Chandra, 1970. The social condition of the British Community in Bengal: 1757-1800. Leiden, E.J.Brill

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