This species of rhinoceros has two horns, the first being the longer and more sharply pointed, but the Java species has only one.
In the valleyof the Musi, all the region we have been travelling in today on 27 April, abounds in rhinoceroses, elephants and deer.
On our return from Agar Sumpur we noticed the tracks of a rhinoceros, tiger and deer which had all passed along that way last night.
The natives here know nothing of the frequent combats between these animals and elephants, that are so frequently pictured in popular works on natural history.
Sumatra. The rhinoceros lives indifferently anywhere between the sea-shores and the tops of the highest peaks.
In the path, from place to place, the natives had made pits 8 or 10 feet long, anbd about 3 wide and 5 or 6 deep. Each was covered over with sticks, on which dirt was laid, and any leaves were scattered over the whole so as to perfectly conceal all appearance of danger. It is so nearly of the proportions of the rhinoceros, for whom it is made, and so deep, and the clay in which it is made is so slippery, that he generally fails to extricate himself, and the natives then dispatch him with their spears.
