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File AvailableFlacourt, E. de 1658 Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar. Paris, Alexandre Lesselin, pp. i-xxiii, 1-192, i-xviii, 193-384, 1-4
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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African Rhino Species
Saw rhinoceros called Gabah after arrival at Saldanha Bay
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File AvailableHondius, J. 1652 Klare beghryving van Cabo de Bona Esperanca; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe, van Cabo Negro af. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, pp. 1-33, pl. 1
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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African Rhino Species
Tafel-Bergh - Table Mountain, presence of rhinoceros
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File AvailableHondius, J. 1652 Klare beghryving van Cabo de Bona Esperanca; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe, van Cabo Negro af. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, pp. 1-33, pl. 1
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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African Rhino Species
Mossel Bay - rhinoceros
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
(Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither out of the countrie of Bengala, ...
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File AvailableGodinho de Eredia, E. 1613 Malaca, l'Inde meridionale et le Cathay Manuscrit original autographe, appartenant a la Bibliotheque Royale de Bruxelles, reproduit en facsimile et traduit par M Leon Janssen. Bruxelles, C. Muquardt, not paginated
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
Presence of rhinoceros recorded in Malaya.
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File AvailableBarlow, R. 1541 A brief summe of geographie

In: Taylor, E.G.R. A brief summe of geographie by Roger Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. London, Hakluyt Society, Works Second Series, vol. 69: pp. i-lvi, 1-210
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
In India - Bengala: . . . and ther the bestes called Rhynocerontes which be as elephants and almost of ther colour, thei be as bygg as a bull and is of making like a hogge saving he hathe his nose croked like a horn and is very hard, wherwith he fighteth with other beastes.
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