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Reference Base  The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Gove... |
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The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed |
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Marsden, W. |
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1811 |
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London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court |
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pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Sumatran Rhino
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| I do not know anything to warrant the stories told of the mutual antipathy, and the desperate encounters of these two enormous beasts. |
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Distribution - Records
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| The rhinoceros, both that with a single horn and the double-horned species are natives of these woods. The latter has been particularly described by the late ingenious Mr John Bell, one of the pupils of Mr John Hunter, in a paper in the Philos. Transactions for 1793. |
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Names in vernacular
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| Basak |
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| The horn is esteemed as an antidote against poison, and on that account formed into drinking cups. |
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