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Reference Base William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eas... |
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William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802 |
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Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. |
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1979 |
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Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10 |
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pp. i-iv, 1-253 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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Sunday 4 April 1802, Skeet Fontein, `one of the people shot a Rhinoceros' |
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
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Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes. |
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
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Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. The whole skin is of a disagreeable ash colour approaching to that of a toad. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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18 Nov 1801, Magaaga Mountains. `The tracks of Rhinoceros in plenty.' 19 Nov 1801, idem
`The Rhinoceros had left such marks as proved that he had but lately gone from the spot ...' |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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Sunday 27 Dec 1801, Kossy. Two farmers who had remained in the fields all night from the Giraffe hunt arrived - they had shot a Rhinoceros in our neighbourhood - large of the kind - the black two horned Rhinoceros -this specimen an old male is beyond comparison the most awkward and ugly of quadr... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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both are solid masses of horn |
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Location:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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Male shot at Koussie Fountain 1801
the foremost horn was split and wore [sic] in several places - a circumstance common to the males. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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31 Oct 1801, Jonkers Fonteyn. `At day light the print of a Rhinoceros feet was discovered who had come to drink in the night.' |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Seikloa |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Magooe |
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