Herport travelled from Europe to Java and China from the spring of 1659 to May 1668.
The German edition of 1669 has a plate (facing p.20) with rhinoceros after Dürer, facing left, with Table Mountain in the background. The title and artist given on the plate show:
Cap: de Bona Esperanza
Wilhelm Steffler del.
Con. Meijer sc. 1669
Text from reprint of 1930
[1930:21] Visit Cape of Good Hope, 5-22 October 1659, outward jorney
In disem Land sind vilerley wilde Thier ... gibt es auch viel Rhinoceroten ...
[1930:31] Java
Es gibt auch alhier ... Rhinoceroten ...
[1930:90] Travel from Jakarta to R. Bekasi, May 1662
Da sahen wir an beiden Seiten dess Landes viel Tiger und Rhinoceroten, die da kamen zu dem Strom zu trincken oder sonsten an dem Ufer weideten.