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File AvailableSchwaner, C.A.L.M. 1853 Borneo: beschrijving van het stroomgebied van den Barito, en reizen langs eenige voornaame rivieren van het zuid-oostelijk gedeelte van dit eiland. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, vol. 1, pp. 1-234
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
Travel along the Barito river, The natives hunt almost all mammals, which they eat.
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File AvailableLow, J. 1850 The Karean tribes or aborigines of Martaban and Tavai, with notices of the aborigines in Keddah and Perak. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 4: 413-432
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
Semangs in Perak, Malaysia - same text in Begbie 1834: 7. The rhinoceros is found frequently in marshy places. Towards the close of the rainy season, they are said to bury themselves in this manner in different places, and upon the dry weather setting in, and from the powerful effects of the ve...
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File AvailableRoorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Asian Rhino Species
To catch the rhinoceros, the Javanese search for the place where it comes to drink. They then dig a hole in the path to that place in the shape of a grave, but converging into a point at the lower end. They cover it with bamboos, and on top of these they put earth and reed or leaves. If the rh...
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File AvailableVerhuell, Q.M.R. 1836 Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indie. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-247
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World
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All Rhino Species
Keeping rhino within shallow moat. One day, the Indians in the regency of Kadoe had found the track of a rhinoceros in a remote forest. The resident then was told about it. The Indians said that one only needed to dig a shallow moat of minor breath to keep the animal captive. Possibly the wei...
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