 | Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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| The rhinoceros is fierce, but flies from man. When wounded or a female with calf, the rhino is dangerous and hard to kill. |
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| Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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| 1890, Java, One horn sells for 40 to 150 florins |
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| Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 |
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| The Malay on Sumatra differentiate two species, one the Badak krbo is larger and rather quiet and inoffensive, and the smaller Badak tenggiling, which is quite aggressive and always attacks men. |
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| Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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| He is generally unaccompanied, is unsocial and fierce. Sometimes 7 or 8 assemble and visit a coffee or cinchona plantation where they commit serious depredations by eating the tender shoots and uprooting the younger trees. |
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| Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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| The carcass of a rhino is prized by the natives, especially by the Java Chinese, who even use the skin in preparations of food. The hide resembles that of a hippopotamus.
The horn is highly valued by natives, who belive it will extract the poison of applied to the bite of a serpent or scorpion.... |
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| Sandick, R.A. van 1890 In het rijk van vulcaan: de uitbarstingen van Krakatau en hare gevolgen. Zutphen, pp. 1-195 |
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| Jentink, F.A. 1889 On a collection of mammals from East-Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 11: 17-30 |
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| Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sumatra, Deli, Tandjong-Morawa. Collected by: B. Hagen, 1883. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
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| Chys, J.A. van der 1889 Nederlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek 1602-1811, volume 5, 1743-1750. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij and 's Hage, M. Nijhoff, pp. i, 1-787 |
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| 1749, 14 January. The government stops the premium on killing rhinos. The numbers were increasing quickly and the rhinoceros is a shy animal, and less dangerous than a tiger. Since 1 Sep 1747 premiums had been paid for the killing of 526 rhinoceroses and 80 tigers, a sum of 606 rijksdaalders. |
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| Chys, J.A. van der 1889 Nederlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek 1602-1811, volume 5, 1743-1750. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij and 's Hage, M. Nijhoff, pp. i, 1-787 |
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| 1747, 1 September. The government issues a premium of 10 rijksdaalders for the killing of a rhinoceros or tiger. The Commissary for the matters of the natives had already advanced 860 rijksdaalders for this purpose, because between October 1746 and August 1747 there had been killed 60 rhinocero... |
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| Jentink, F.A. 1889 On a collection of mammals from East-Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 11: 17-30 |
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| Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sumatra, Deli, Tandjong-Morawa. Collected by: B. Hagen, 1883. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
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