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File AvailableElliot, G.F. Scott 1896 A naturalist in mid-Africa, being an account of a journey to the mountains of the moon and Tanganyika. London, A.D. Innes and Co, pp. i-xvi, 1-413
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The long horns of the white rhinoceros are often for sale at Zanzibar. These come from the Zambezi region.
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File AvailableSkertchly, J.A. 1896 Sport in Ashanti, or Melinda the caboceer: a tale of the Gold Coast in the days of King Koffee Kalcalli. London, Frederick Warne, pp. i-x, 1-358
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File AvailableNoack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10
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The double-horned rhinoceros has already become less common in Ugunda and Ugalla, but ut is still common in the mountainous and rich-in-game region of Kawende (east of Tanganika)., from where many horns (Kipussa), often with a remarkable length, are exported to the coast as an article of trade us...
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File AvailableNoack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10
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The double-horned rhinoceros has already become less common in Ugunda and Ugalla, but ut is still common in the mountainous and rich-in-game region of Kawende (east of Tanganika)., from where many horns (Kipussa), often with a remarkable length, are exported to the coast as an article of trade us...
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File AvailableCumming, C.F. Gordon 1887 Strange medicines. Nineteenth Century: a monthly review 124 (June): 901-918
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W.P. 1880 Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca compiled from Chinese sources. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 39: i-x, 1-144, map 1
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To China. I. Java : New history of the T'ang Dynasty (618-900), Book 222, part 2: The land produces tortoise-shells, gold and silver, rhinoceros-horns and ivory. The land is very rich.
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File AvailableDeveria, G. 1880 Histoire des relations de la Chine avec l'Annam - Vietnam du XVI au XIXe siecle. Paris, Ernest Leroux, pp. i-x, 1-102
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In 1790, in the 55th year of Kieng-Long, a man called Nguyen-quang-binh (Nguyen-hue), the new King of Annam, went to the court of China to express his wish of a long life for the emperor. Among the gifts taken at the time, there are recorded: the horn of the rhinoceros. The products of Annam, a...
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File AvailableHarmand 1876 Voyage au Cambodge. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 12: 337-367
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The governor of Tonle-Repau, who lives at Nlong-Prea, a poor hamlet in the forest, has 400 men paying taxes. This he pays at Bangkok, annually 25-26 bars of gold (about 200 francs of our money), together with some gifts which include tusks of elephants, horns of the rhinoceros, etc.
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File AvailableMann, R.J. 1862 A descriptive catalogue of the Natal contribution to the International Exhibition of 1862. London, Jarrold & Sons
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The Rhinoceros is only seen about the banks of the inland rivers; but it must still be very plentiful, to judge from the number of horns that enter the colony. Every store abounds with specimens of them. Twelve hundred horns, worth six hundred pounds sterling, are exported annually from Natal.
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File AvailableWilliams, S.W. 1856 Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China, sailing directions, tables &c., 4th edition (revised and enlarged). Canton, Office of the Chinese Repository, pp. i-viii, 1-376
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Rhinoceros horn or si-kioh. The best sort comes from Cochinchina and sell at times for $300 a piece. An inferior sort comes from India, of which some probably are from South Africa, which sell for $30 and upwards a piece. The Chinese carve the finest pieces into elegant cups, cornucopias &c., ...
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