Godfrey, R., 1924. Our vanishing fauna. Blythswood Review, a South African journal of religious, social and educational work 1 (10): 117-118
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Black Rhino |
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From a letter written by Mrs. John Ross on 28th December 1825, in reply to a query from her brother in Scotland regarding the wild beasts to be found at Ncera, we learn that at that time there existed, in the neighbourhood of the present Alice, lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, sea-cow, zebra or quagga, monkey, baboon, wolf, jackal and wild cat.
[Alice in Eastern Cape, 32.47 S, 26.51 E]
[Godfrey's comment, later in the paper] The 'common' rhinoceros has disappeared like a knotless thread; it has left no trace of its former existence in any natice place-name known to me, nor does it figure in Kafir-lore; it survives only in its name um-Kombe, which, by the way, is in Zulu reserbed for the still rarer and now almost extinct White rhinoceros.
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