 | Anonymous 1912 Theft of rhino horn in Singapore. Straits Times, Singapore 7 May 1912: 8 |
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| Thirteen rhinoceros horns - which are used locally in the manufacture of medicines - were stolen last night from a room in premises on Boat Quay occupied by Lee See Kow. The value of the horns was $670. [complete text] |
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| Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 |
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| It seems that the caravans of people from Tripolis buy the horns which they find. In any case, the Djellaba, who trade with them, collect everything that the can find in the country. Maybe the merchandise is sent to the Far East, where the horn is considered an aphrodisiac and is very expensive. |
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| Eardley-Wilmot, S. 1910 Forest life and sport in India. London, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xi, 1-324 |
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| There are rhinoceros and bison in the Bengal Tarai, but at the time of our visit these had become so scarce that shooting was prohibited. |
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| Hooper, D. 1910 Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522 |
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| In the Mandalay drugs shops a substance similar to congealed blood is sold as a substitute for the more costly rhino blood. Its origin could not be ascertained. |
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| Meyer, H. 1909 Das Deutsche Kolonialreich, vol 1: Ostafrika und Kamerun. Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, pp. i-xii, 1-650 |
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| Rhino horn were exported from German East Africa in 1907 for Mark 105,261. The farmers around Kilimanjaro have taken for several years waggon-loads of rhino hide for export, and as the European leather industry pays well for the thick hide, the introduction of the railway will soon see the end o... |
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| Wray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65 |
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| In and near the Dindings, the catching and exporting of rhinoceros has been, in the past, quite a regular trade. It is said by the local Malays that some fifty of these animals have been caught there altogether. |
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| Anonymous 1905 Pahang: rhino horn sold by auction. Eastern daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, Singapore 19 September 1905: 3 |
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| Eekhout, R.A. 1900 De wijnkoopsbaai op Java en 25 jaren opportunisme voor Nederlandsch-Indie. Tijdschrift voor Nijverheid en Landbouw in Nederlandsch Indie 60: 343-555 |
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| To China. In the Annals of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618-946) it is said about Java, that the country produces tortoise, gold, silver, rhinohorn and ivory and is very rich. The rhino horn could have been a product from Western Java. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| I have been told that it is more profitable for a Malay, if he happens to catch one of these animals in a pitfall, to kill it and sell the remains to the Chinese, than to sell the whole animal to a European. |
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| Neumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455 |
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| The animals were hunted for their horn (soemboe badak). While the export of these horns was important earlier, this has now almost stopped, first because the animal is only rarely met with nowadays, secondly because the population does not engage in hunting much anymore. |
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