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the testimony of a man from a very different part of the 

 country, as obtained and published by a missionary of 

 great research, who resided a long time in Madagascar."* 

 The rude drawings made by savages are often faithful 

 delineations of the salient features of the objects familiar 

 to them. Sir J. Barrow, in his Travels in Africa, has 

 given the head of an unicorn, answering well to the ndzoo- 

 dzoo, which was copied from a charcoal sketch made by a 

 Caffre in the interior of a cavern. The copy was made by 

 Daniell ; and Colonel Hamilton Smith mentions having 

 seen, among the papers of this artist, another drawing 

 likewise copied from the walls of an African cave. In this 

 were represented, with exceedingly characteristic fidelity, 

 several of the common antelopes of the country, such as a 

 group of elands, the hartebeest, and the springbok; while 

 among them appeared, with head and shoulders towering 

 above the rest, an animal having the general character of 

 a rhinoceros, but, in form, lighter than a wild bull, having 

 an arched neck, and a long nasal horn projecting in the 

 form of a sabre. " This drawing," observes the Colonel, 

 " is no doubt still extant, and should be published ; but, in 

 confirmation of the opinion that truth exists to a certain 

 extent in the foregoing remarks, it may be observed that 

 we have seen, we believe in the British Museum, a horn 

 brought from Africa, unlike those of any known species 

 of rhinoceros : it is perfectly smooth and hard, about 

 thirty inches in length, almost equally thick throughout, 

 not three inches in its greatest diameter, nor less than 



* Illustr. of Zool. of South Ajrica. 



