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Buchanan, F. [=Hamilton, F.], 1930. Journal of Francis Buchanan kept during the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811. Edited with notes and introduction by C. E. A. W. Oldham. Patna, Government Printing , pp. i-xxxi, 1-259
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Taxonomy |
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Indian Rhino |
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(40) About four miles south from Sakarigali a small torrent from the hills falls down a precipice, and is called Motijharna, or the pearl of streams. At all seasons it has a small quantity of water, and in the periodical rains forms a cascade, which being visible from the great river has attracted some notice. Like other similar sources, its water in the dry season is absorbed before it reaches the plain, but in the floods it finds its way to the Ganges by two routes. The first is nearly opposite to the cascade, the second forms a long channel that winds for along way south by the roots of the hills, is named Bagicha, and joins an old channel of the Ganges south from Masaha. The Bagicha at the foot of the hills is a favourite haunt of the Rhinoceros, -
(292) In most of the wild parts of the district, the rhinoceros is occasionally but very rarely seen. Formerly, in the marshes at the foot of the hills between Rajmahal and Sakarigali, there were many, and even now there are always some, but they have been so much disturbed by European sportsmen, that they have become scarce, and exceedingly shy. They never did much harm.
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