Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras

Balsdak

If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood.

The rhinoceros always goes alone.

When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down.