. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ead, or hisnofe, whichever he pleafes to call them. If fuch an animaldoes really exift, it is undoubtedly a new fpecies; it hasnot the armour or plaited fkin, feen in every rhinocerostill this time. He tells us a heap of wonderful ftoriesabout it, and claims the honour of being the firft difcover-er of it; and really, I believe, he is fo far in the right, thatif he can prove what he fays to be true, there is no man thatwill pretend to difpute this point with him. Befides itshav
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ead, or hisnofe, whichever he pleafes to call them. If fuch an animaldoes really exift, it is undoubtedly a new fpecies; it hasnot the armour or plaited fkin, feen in every rhinocerostill this time. He tells us a heap of wonderful ftoriesabout it, and claims the honour of being the firft difcover-er of it; and really, I believe, he is fo far in the right, thatif he can prove what he fays to be true, there is no man thatwill pretend to difpute this point with him. Befides itshaving a fkin without plaits, it has two horns on the fore-head, fo loofe,that they clam againft one another, and makea noife when the animal is running: then he has one ofthefe only that are moveable, which he turns to one fide orthe other when he choofes to dig roots ; an imaginationfcarcely poflible, I think, to any one who has ever feen arhinoceros. With thefe loofe and claming horns he divertshimfelf by throwing a man and horfe into the air; and,though but five feet high, at other times he throws a load- 4 etl. ^Ms^I^Ij shhbp r W& Wmfk *m HP* Jill ?•;.?§ *^t -?.;-v#
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