VIEW OF THE LION'S HEAD. 
FOUR PORTRAITS FROM NATURE. 
THE AFRICAN RHINOSCEROS. 
N° 28. 
N° 29. 
N° 30. 
This Mountain forms a detached part of the skreen which surrounds the town of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and of which the Table Mountain is the principal part. 
On its summit is erected the Flag Staff, from which the signals for shipping are 
made to the town. The upper part is a naked mass of stone, and the whole body 
of the hill is bare of verdure, except in the winter season when the rains prevail. 
The valley, from the edge of which the annexed view is taken, is, however, rich 
and picturesque. The house is delightfully situated, commanding a complete view 
of Cape Town and Table Bay. The trees on the right are the Strelitzia Alba, and 
the Agave Americana. 
The Bosjesman is probably the pure unmixed Hottentot. They are a very dimi- 
nutive race of men, but in general well formed and extremely active. They are 
thinly met with on the desert plains of Southern Africa, always prowling about for 
their prey. They neither keep cattle nor sheep, nor cultivate the ground, but exist 
on roots, on gums, and on cattle, which they steal from the Colonists who live on the 
borders of their country. They go, for the most part, entirely naked ; but both 
sexes ornament the head ; the men sticking tufts of the Spring-bok hair in their 
own, wearing rings in their ears, and porcupine quills through the cartilage of the 
nose and in the hair. The women wear caps of the deer's skin. 
The Booshuanas are in every respect so like the Kaffers, that a description of the 
one will equally apply to the other. They are, however, more of a mixed race than 
the eastern Kaffers. The women comb their hair down over the forehead; and the 
men wear caps and plates of copper suspended from one ear. 
The two-horned Rhinosceros of Africa is very different from that with one horn, 
which is common to the countries of Asia. The hide of the former is smooth like 
that of the Hippopotamus ; out of both of which animals the boors cut their horse- 
whips, which they call Shambocs. The individual from which the annexed print 
was taken, is supposed to be a new species, or, at least, a variety of the species 
usually met with in South Africa, being of greater bulk, and having the upper horn 
at least three times the size of what it generally is. The eye is remarkably small, 
and placed at a great distance from the forehead. The body resembles that of the 
Buffalo's, and the legs are short and thick like those of the Hippopotamus, or Sea 
Cow. This animal is not by any means vicious. The Hottentots and the Kaffers 
pursue it in the thickets, and approach near enough to hurl their H assagais, or jave- 
lins, at it. The flesh is coarse, but not disagreeable. The Rhinosceros is very com- 
mon in all the thickets on the eastern frontier of the Colony. 
