The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed

I do not know anything to warrant the stories told of the mutual antipathy, and the desperate encounters of these two enormous beasts.

The rhinoceros, both that with a single horn and the double-horned species are natives of these woods. The latter has been particularly described by the late ingenious Mr John Bell, one of the pupils of Mr John Hunter, in a paper in the Philos. Transactions for 1793.

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The horn is esteemed as an antidote against poison, and on that account formed into drinking cups.