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Title: William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802
Author(s): Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R.
Year published: 1979
Publisher: Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-iv, 1-253
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Borcherds, P.B. 1802 Letter to his father Rev. Meent Borcherds: pp. 205-235



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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Sunday 4 April 1802, Skeet Fontein, `one of the people shot a Rhinoceros'
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes.
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. The whole skin is of a disagreeable ash colour approaching to that of a toad.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
18 Nov 1801, Magaaga Mountains. `The tracks of Rhinoceros in plenty.' 19 Nov 1801, idem `The Rhinoceros had left such marks as proved that he had but lately gone from the spot ...'
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Sunday 27 Dec 1801, Kossy. Two farmers who had remained in the fields all night from the Giraffe hunt arrived - they had shot a Rhinoceros in our neighbourhood - large of the kind - the black two horned Rhinoceros -this specimen an old male is beyond comparison the most awkward and ugly of quadr...
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
both are solid masses of horn
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
Male shot at Koussie Fountain 1801 the foremost horn was split and wore [sic] in several places - a circumstance common to the males.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
31 Oct 1801, Jonkers Fonteyn. `At day light the print of a Rhinoceros feet was discovered who had come to drink in the night.'
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
Seikloa
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
Magooe
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