If their eyes were only as keen as their nostrils, it would be a dangerous game to attack them, for they can run with sufficient rapidity to overtake a horse in the first charge.
In charging and running, the black variety far excels the white.

They are easily avoided, however, by the hunter springing quickly to one side, and letting them rush blindly on.
The black rhinoceros is about six feet high at the shoulder, and full thirteen in length; while the white kinds are far larger.

The "kobaoba" is full seven feet high, and fourteen in length! No wonder that an animal of these extraordinary dimensions was at first sight taken for the elephant.

In fact, the kobaoba rhinoceros is the quadruped next to the elephant in size; and with his great muzzle--full eighteen inches broad--his long clumsy head, his vast ponderous body, this animal impresses one with an idea of strength and massive grandeur as great, and some say greater than the elephant himself.

He looks, indeed, like a caricature of the elephant.