The Rhinosceros is very common in the thickets on the eastern frontiers of the Colony.
The eye is remarkably small, and placed at a great distance from the forehead.
African scenery and Animals. London. No.30, The African Rhinoceros. Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No.9 Cleveland Street. Fitzroy Square, London, Nov. 15, 1805
This animal is not by any means vicious.
S Africa. The Hottentots and the Kaffers pursue it in the thickets, and approach near enough to hurl their Hassagais, or Javelins, at it. The flesh is coarse, but not disagreeable.
The eye is remarkably small, and placed at a great distance from the forehead.
New species of black rhino - S Africa. The individual from which the annexed print was taken, is supposed to be a new species, or at least, a variety of the species usually met with in South Africa, being of greater bulk and having the upper horn at least three times the size of what it generally is. The eye is remarkably small, and placed at a great distance from the forehead.
