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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.

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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Theal, G.M. 1899. Records of the Cape Colony from May 1801 to February 1803. Cape Town, Government of the Cape Colony. vol. 4, pp. i-viii, 1-505.
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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Wednesday 30th Dec 1801, Maggaga or Yzerbergs Fountain. Jacob Kruger and Meintjes van den Berg, who had ridden on before us, had killed a rhinoceros cow, called by the Boetshouanas magooe, which according to their statement is of a different kind from those we had seen on the 27th instant, and of a different colour.

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1801

A male rhinoceros shot by Carel Kruger on 27 December 1801, 322 cm in length.

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Location South Africa Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Male shot near Kuruman - from the head to the tail 10 feet 7 inches (322 cm)

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