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Inglis, J., 1892. Tent life in tigerland, into which is incorporated sport and work on the Nepaul frontier or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an indigo planter. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co.
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Indian Rhino |
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Koosee jungles (near Purneah). (548) Tracks of rhinoceros are often seen, but I only saw a very few of the animals themselves while I lived in that district. First occasion (after a night when he got lost in the jungle on the banks of the Koosee River, near Burgamma, Fusseah, Battabarree). (555) Rumour of rhinoceros in neighbouring village. Heard that Premnarain Singh, a young neighbouring Zemindar, had gone in pursuit of it with elphant and guns. – Found the rhino killed, it had got stuck in quicksand. (556) Body measured 11 ft 3 inches from the snout to the tail, stood 6 ft 9 in. Horn was 6 ½ inches long. Girth a little over 10 ft.
Nepaul.
(557) Nepaul terai. They are more numerous, but Jung Bahadur, the late ruler of Neoaul, would allow no one to shoot them but himself. (He once shot at a rhinoceros in Nepaul because he forgot this rule.)
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