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Mundy, G.C., 1832. Pen and pencil sketches, being the journal of a tour in India. London, John Murray, 2 vols.
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Asia - South Asia - India - Ganges valley |
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Distribution |
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Indian Rhino |
p.181 – February [year?] – reached the Colgong Rocks.
At the foot of these mountains [Rajemal hills] there is to be had some of the finest shooting in India. In the thickest of the forest the rhinoceros revels in his native swamps. Lord Hastings, with a large party of friends, made a sporting campaign under these hills in 1819, and killed three of the above-named animals. Their skin is so thick as to be almost ball-proof, and are usually shot with tin or copper bullets or bolts. Elephants have a great dread of the rhinoceros, and few of them will await his charge.
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