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The Rhino Document Library
Contains a total of 30389 references.
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Truter, P.J.; Somerville, W. 1899. Journal in the form of a report addressed, with due respect, to His Excellency Lieutenant General Francis Dundas, Acting Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope in Southern Africa.
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Livingstone, D. 1863. Ontdekkingreizen in de binnenlanden van Afrika. Vertaald door HMC van Overzee. Leyden, Sythoff.
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Moritz, E. 2000. Die aeltesten Reiseberichte uber Namibia 1482-1852, Teil II: Die Berichte der Rheinischen Mission bis zum Jahre 1846, Vorwort und Bearbeitung Helmut Bistri. Windhoek, Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. pp. 1-224.
Cullinan, P. 1992. Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: the man and his travels at the Cape. Cape Town, Struik Winchester. pp. 1-215.
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Vedder, H. 1981. Das alte Sudwestafrika: Sudwestafrikas Geschichte bis zum Tode Mahareros 1890, nach den besten schriftlichen und mundlichen Quellen erzahlt. Windhoek, S.W.A. Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. pp. i-xx, 1-686.
Pieters, F.F.J.M.; Rookmaaker, L.C. 1994. Arnout Vosmaer, topcollectioneur van naturalia en zijn Regnum Animale. In: Sliggers, B.C.; Wertheim, A.A., Een vorstelijke dierentuin: de menagerie van Willem V. Arnhem. pp. 11-38.
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Dierenfeld, E.S.; Waweru, F.K.; Du Toit, R.; Brett, R. 1990. Alpha -Tocopherol levels in plants consumed by black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis): native browses compared with common zoo forages. Proceedings of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians 1990: 219-221, 2 tables.
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Molsbergen, E.C. Godee 1932. Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse tijd Deel IV: Tochten in het Kafferland, 1776-1805. s Gravenhage, Werken Linschooten-Vereniging, vol. 26. vol. 4, pp. i-xxxii, 1-368.
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Molsbergen, E.C. Godee 1922. Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse tijd Deel III: Tochten langs de ZO-Kust en naar het oosten, 1670-1752. s Gravenhage, Werken Linschooten-Vereniging, vol. 20. vol. 3, pp. i-ix, i-xxii, 1-366.
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Sparrman, A. 1975. A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope towards the Antarctic polar circle round the world and to the country of the Hottentots and Caffers from the year 1772-1776 Based on the English editions of 1785-1786 published by Robinson, London Edited by prof VS. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 6, 7. vol. 1, pp. i-xix, 1-331 (1975), vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-296 (1977).
Sparrman, A. 1787. Voyage au Cap de Bonne Esperance, et autour du monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. Paris, Buisson. vol. 2.
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Sparrman, A. 1784. Reise nach dem Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung, den sudlichen Polarlandern und um die Welt, hauptsachlich aber in den Landern der Hottentotten und Kaffern in den Jahren 1772 bis 1776. Berlin, Haude and Spener. pp. i-xxviii, 1-624.
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Sonnerat, P. 1782. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu’en 1781. Paris, l'Auteur, Froulle, Nyon, Barrois. vol. 2 , pp. i-viii, 1-298.
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Sloane, H. 1749. Accounts of the pretended serpent-stone called Pietra de Cobra de Cabelos, and of the Pietra de Mombazza or the Rhinoceros Bezoar, together with the figure of a rhinoceros with a double horn. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 46 (492): 118-119, 124-125, pl. 1.
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Sichem, C. van 1739. Bijbels lusthof, of te twee hondert, zoo historien als leeringen, des Bybels; uyt het Ouden en Nieuwen Testament, met de schriftuurplaatse daartoe dienende, geschmeede. Amsterdam, Jan Klooster.
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