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Daniel Lysons, Collectanea: or, a Collection of Advertisements from the Newspapers, vol.2
BL, 1889.e.5
The Daily Advertiser (?), 28 November 1751
To be seen at the Red Lion, Charing Cross,
The Grandest Collection of Wild Beasts, viz.
1. A surprising Crocodile
2. The noble Female Rhinoceros, or real Unicorn, a beast of upwards of eighty hundred weight, in a natural coat of Mail or Armour, taken by the noted Kouli Kan from the Great Mogul, having a large horn on her nose, three hoofs on each foot, and a hyde stuck thick with scales, pistol proof, and surprisingly folded as not to hinder its motion, having travelled a thousand leagues by land through the Great Mogul's dominion to Bengal, and from thence shipped on board the Shaftesbury Indiaman, Capt. Bookey, and is allowed to be the only complete animal of the kind ever shown in Europe.
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