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fome few are feen there, they are, as one may 
fay, loft travellers, which, being foon difcovered 
and purfued by the inhabitants, are either kill- 
ed or obliged to feek their native country as 
faft as poffible. 
If there were abundance of rhinocerofes. In 
Quammedaka in the time of Dr. Sparmann, 
there w^ere none there in my time, any more 
than in the colony itfelf, which they deferted 
in proportion as it began to be better peopled, 
Bontius," adds Mr, Sparmann, " remark- 
ed long ago, that the rhinoceros is generally 
killed with powder and ball. BufFon, pro- 
^' bably, did not pay attention to this paflage, 
"when he afferts, on the authority ofGer- 
vaife, that the fkin of the rhinoceros cannot 
be pierced by any ball." 
If we can give credit to certain travellers., 
the one-horned rhinoceros, the fcaly £kir> of 
which is folded back on the neck, in the form 
of a mantelet, is fo hard that it withfiands a 
mufket fhot ; and it is probably this fpecies ta 
which Buffon alludes. 
For my part, I am acquainted with thofe only 
of Southern Africa, and never faw any but 
the two-horned rhinoceros, which has a fmooth 
