BI I Length, with the hair, * • • • Feet. Inches. 4 * ° i Breadth of the hind hoof, • • • • O S i Length of ditto, • « • • 0 8i Ditto of the fore hoof, • • • • O •OHO« Breadth of ditto, . . • • • • 0 s i Length of the horns, • • • • . ■ I £>è Diftance between ditto, » • • • 0 3 Length of the hair of the mane from three to four inches, and of a reddiih colour*. The colour of thefe animals is in general reddiih, or dark brown and white, and fome of them are black and white ; they are cloven footed ; have four teats; their tail refembles that of a bullock ; but the hair of the tail is much ftronger, and in general black ; they have eight fore teeth below, but none above; and fix grinders, or double teeth '' on each fide above and below; the tongue is rather pointed and rough ; they have no footlock hoofs; they are not fwift ; but can continue a long chafe before they flop ; which may be the reafon that few of them are ihot. The ground is fo iharp that a horfe is in general lame before he can get within ihot of them, which was the cafe with our horfes, otherwife I ihould have preferved two perfed fpecimens of a male and female. It is difficult to diftinguiih them at any diftance, from the ffiort- nefs of their body, which, together with the length of their neck, gives them the appearance of a decayed tree. During our ftay at this place my companions wounded two Rhinoce- * The ikin is fluffed, and in the poffeifion of John Hunter, Efq. Leicefter Square.
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