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File AvailableCoomaraswamy, A.K. 1912 Indian drawings: second series, chiefly Rajput. London, India Society, pp. 1-34, pls. 1-26
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Drawing in author's collection: 'Rhinoceros charging elephants', 18 ? x 8 inches; Rajput (Jaipur), 19th century. [rhino with single horn, no saddle] This work, probably late 19th century, though quite realistic, is very amusing; the unconcerned and surly rhino does not bestow a secon...
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File AvailablePeringuey, L. 1909 On rock engravings of animals and the human figure, found in South Africa. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 18: 401-419, pls. 7-15, figs. 1-2
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South Africa. Rhino found on rock paintings in the Cape Province. Identified as Rhinoceros simus. They were made anterior to the immigration of the Hottentots.
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File AvailableTongue, M. H. 1909 Bushman paintings. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. 1-47
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South Africa. Rock paintings with rhinoceros found and illustrated in: Zandfontein; Baviaans Krantz, Jonasfontein, Roodekop, Zandfontein (Molteno dt.).
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File AvailableWerner, A. 1908 Bushman paintings. Journal of the Royal African Society 7 (28): 387-393
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Busjman paintings, review. The rhinoceros occurs several times.
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File AvailablePeters, J.P.; Thiersch, H. 1905 Painted tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa (Mareshah). London, Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, pp. i-xvii, 1-101, pls. 1-22
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Painted tombs in Necropolis of Marissa (Mareshah). The last section on the south wall of tomb I consists of two very large, exotic animals, of which the first is a bulky rhinoceros [plate X]. The hige head with the small, round eyes set much too low down, produces a comical rather than a terrib...
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File AvailableAymonier, E. 1904 Le Cambodge, III: Le groupe d'Angkor et l'histoire. Paris, Ernest Leroux
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The cage of the rhinoceros. Towards the oriental extremity of this group, Francis Garnier, following Lagr?e, recorded a small ruin which excaped our attention. Both authors say the following: ?About 2 km from the village of Preah Dak, following the modern route eastwards, we find a rather stran...
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File AvailableGregory, J.W. 1896 The great Rift Valley, being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, with some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology, and future prospects of British East Africa. London, John Murray, pp. i-xxi, 1-422
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Kenya. A Bushman rock painting of Burchell's rhinoceros.
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File AvailableHirth, F. 1885 China and the Roman orient: researches into their ancient and mediaeval relations as represented in old Chinese records. Leipzic and Munich, Georg Hirth and Shanghai and Hongkong, Kelly and Walsh, pp. i-xvii, 1-330
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Translation of Hou-hn-shu, chapter 88: hsi-yu-chuen, the first principal account of Ta-t'sin. This lasted until the 9th year of the Yen-shi period during the Emperor Huna-ti's reign (AD 166) when the king of Ta-ts'in, An-tun, sent an embassy which, from the frontier of Jik-nan (Annam) offered iv...
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File AvailableCasalis, E. 1859 Les Bassoutos: ou vingt-trois annees de sejour et d'observations au sud de l'Afrique. Paris, Ch. Meyrueis et Cie, pp. i-vi, 1-370
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File AvailablePallegoix, J.B. 1839 Relation d'un voyage a Chanthaburi, suivie d'un apercu sur la tribu des Tchongs. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 12: 169-181
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People living in the forest hunt tigers, bears, rhinoceros, buffalo, wild cows and deer.The method to get to the rhinoceros is very curious. Four or five men take solid pieces of bamboo, the point of which is very sharp and has been strengthened in the fire. Armed like this, they go to the plac...
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