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Rhyne, W. ten 1686. Schediasma de Promontorio Bonae Spei: eijusve tractus incolis Hottentottis accurante, brevesque notas addente Henr Screata Sa Zavorziz. Scafusii, J.M. Meister. pp. i-iv, 1-76.

Schediasma de Promontorio Bonae Spei: eijusve tractus incolis Hottentottis accurante, brevesque notas addente Henr Screata Sa Zavorziz

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Location South Africa Subject History Species African Rhinos

Wilhelmus Ten Rhyne, 1647 - 1700

1686 Schediasma de Promontorio Bonae Spei: ejusve tractus incolis Hottentottis accurante, brevesque notas addente Henr. Screta S.a. Zavorziz. Scafusii: impensis Joh. Mart. Meisteri, typis Joh.Mart.Osvaldi, pp. i-iv, 1-76; 8vo. - Annotations by Heinrich Screta, 1637-1689.

Translation
1732 An account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes, the natives of that country, with some animadversions upon the same by Henry Secreta a Zevorzit. Translated from the Latin original, printed at Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Pp. 768-782 in [Churchill, A. and Churchill, J. (eds).]: A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original mauscripts, others now first publish’d in English. In six volumes, with a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation, from its first beginning. London: Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, volume 4, pp. 1-807; folio.
1744 An account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes. In [Churchill, A. and Churchill, J. (eds).]: A collection of voyages and travels, volume 4
1752 An account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes. In [Churchill, A. and Churchill, J. (eds).]: A collection of voyages and travels, volume 4.
1933 Schapera, I. (editor), The early Cape Hottentots described in the writings of Olfert Dapper (1668), Willem Ten Rhyne (1796) and Johannes Guilielmus de Grevenbroek (1695). Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society (Works, vol. 14), pp. [1-4], i-xix, 1-309. - Text on rhinoceros pp. 101-103.

Visit to Cape of Good Hope in 1673

Latin text of edition of Schaffhausen, 1686
Chapter II. De Brutis
[17]
Montosa haec solitudo feris brutis, quam hominibus aptior habitatio est: hic enim nocentissimi armentis leones, elephantes, rhinocerotes, [etc.]

English text from the translation of London, 1732
Chapter II. Of the four legg’d beasts
[771]
These mountainous desarts being more adapted for wild ravenous beasts than men, abundance of lyons, elephants, rhinocerots [etc.].

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