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SPECIES OF RHINOCEROS. 
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a straigiit horn projecting three feet from the 
forehead, about ten inches above the tip of the 
nose. The projection of this great horn very 
much resembles that of the fanciful unicorn in 
the British arms. It has a small thick horny sub- 
stance, eight inches long, immediately behind it, 
which can hardly be observed on the animal at 
the distance of a hundred yards, and seems to 
be designed for keeping fast that which is pene- 
trated by the long horn ; so that this species of 
rhinoceros must appear really like a unicorn when 
running in the field. The head resembled in 
size a nine-gallon cask, and measured three feet 
from the mouth to the ear, and being much larger 
than that of the one with the crooked horn, and 
which measured eleven feet in length, the ani- 
mal itself must have been still larger and more 
formidable. From its weight, and the position 
of the horn, it appears capable of overcoming 
any creature hitherto known. Hardly any of 
the natives took the smallest notice of the head, 
but treated it as a thing familiar to them. As 
the entire horn is perfectly solid, the natives, 
I afterwards heard, make from one horn four 
handles for their battle-axes. Our people 
wounded another, which they reported to be 
much larger*. Two redboks were also shot. 
* The head being so weighty ; and the distance to the Cape 
60 great, it appeared necessary to cut off the under jaw and 
