148 The Unicorn. 
gliphics, was lately taken from the catacomb which I caused to 
be opened. A second, in admirable preservation, together with 
the beautiful catacomb richly adorned with hieroglyphies, has 
been sold by mistake to other friends of art. How much might 
still be done here with sufficient means and time ! 
THE UNICORN. | 
Mr. Campbell (the missionary) has kindly favoured us with the 
following description of the head of a very singular animal which 
he has just brought from the interior of Africa. We also have 
had an opportunity of seeing it, and fully agree with Mr. Camp- 
bell, that the animal itself must have ansewered the description 
of the Reem or Unicorn, which is frequently mentioned in Scrip- 
ture. 
“« The animal,” says Mr. Oampbell, was killed by my Hot- 
tentots, in the Mashow country, near the city of Mashow, about 
two hundred miles N. E. of New Lattakoo, to westward of De- 
lagoa Bay. My Hottentots never having seen or heard of an 
animal with one horn of so great a length, cut off its head, and 
brought it bleeding to me upon the back of an ox. From its great 
weight, and being about twelve hundred miles from the Cape of 
Good Hope, I was obliged to reduce it by cutting off the under- 
jaw. The Hottentots cut up the rest of the animal for food, 
which, with the help of the natives, they brought on the backs of 
oxen to Mashow. j 
*¢ The horn, which is nearly black, is exactly three feet long, 
projecting from the forehead about nine or ten inches above the 
nose. From the nose to the ears measured three feet. There is 
a small horny projection of about eight inches immediately behind 
the great horn, designed for keeping fast or steady whatever is 
penetrated by the great horn. There is neither hair nor wool on 
the skin, which is the colour of brown snuff. 
“‘ The animal was well known to the natives. It is a species 
of the rhinoceros ; but if I may judge of its bulk from the size of 
its head, it must have been much larger than any of the seven 
rhinoceroses which my party shot, one of which measured eleven 
fect from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. 
** The skull and horn excited great curiosity at the Cape. 
Most were of opinion that it was all we should have for the 
unicorn, 
** An animal, the size of a horse, which the fancied unicorn is 
supposed to be, would not answer the description of the unicorn 
given by Job, chap. 59, verse 9 e¢ seq., but in every part of that 
description this animal exactly answers to it.” 
(Signed) 6 JoHN CAMPBELL.” 
Pliny’s 
