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piece. He boasted that, in one excursion, he had killed 
seven camclopardales and three white rhinosceroses. The 
latter is not uncommon on the skirts of the colony behind the 
Hantam mountain, and seems to be a variety only of the 
African two-horned rhinosceros. It differs from it in color,, 
which is a pale carnation, in size, which is considerably 
larger, and in the thinness of its skin ; all of which may per- 
haps be the effects of age. Of the figure and character of 
the common two-horned rhinosceros of Africa, which is alto- 
gether different from that of India, covered with its hide of 
mail, I have not seen any just representation, except in the 
drawings of Mr. Daniel ; nor is any mention made of that- 
species, or variety of a species, which, in a journey to the 
Booshuanas, this gentleman, since the present sketches were 
first published, met with sufficiently common,, and of which: 
the annexed print may be considered as an accurate repre- 
sentation. From what I could collect, by comparing the 
two descriptions, it is the same animal as that which our old 
sportsman called the white rhinosceros. The skin of all the 
two-horned species of Africa is comparatively smooth, having 
none of those folds which in the Indian species are so remark- 
able. The head is of a singular form and construction. - 
It is strictly a p<v©^ jcepa?, a 7iose-horii : these excrescences 
growing directly upon the nose. The eyes also may be said 
to be placed in this organ, being immediately under the root 
of the larger horn ; and they are so minute that one would 
be apt to conclude they could not be of much use to so 
large an animal. But nature, always provident, has remedied 
this apparent inconvenience by placing them in projecting 
sockets, in which they turn in all directions like those of the 
