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Hose, C., 1929. The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Another story recounting how the Animals of the Jungle, observing Man's success, resolved upon a tuba-fishing of their own, the triruration of the root to be performed by ordinary chewing. Unhappily the only four-footed creatures who could deal with Derris elliptica without harm to the system, were the Porcupine and the Rhinoceros, who tereupon set to work. The Porcupine did his bit, and the Rhinoceros (whom legend credits with a somewhat pompous humour) chewed Tuba-root for 24 hours at a stretch, finding perhaps that it promoted a healthy action of the skin. The two then proceeded to the river-bank and discharged the juice, much to the consternation of the fish but to the sdatisfaction of the other members of the Animal Kingdom, which was thus able to prove its superiority.
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