تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.2.2

10.2.2

out of all proportion [to its body], and for this reason it is proverbial, and people say: "The rhinoceros: a head without a body." It is smaller than the elephant, but its head is many times larger than the elephant's head. It has a single horn between its eyes, about three cubits long and about a span broad. When it came out at us, one of the horsemen got in its way; it struck the horse he was riding with its horn, pierced its thigh and threw it down, then went back into the thicket, and we could not get at it! I saw the rhinoceros a second time on this road after the afternoon prayer, grazing on the plants of the ground; when we made for it, it fled from us. I saw it yet another time when we were with the King of Hind: we entered a reed thicket, the Sultan rode on an elephant and we rode elephants with him, and the foot-soldiers and horsemen went in, roused it and killed it, and carried its head off to the camp.