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" or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?" Mofes alfo very pro- 
bably meant the rhinofceros when he mentions the unicorn as 
having the ftrength of God. Ariftotle had a very different idea 
of the animal, to which he gives the name of unicorn, for he 
defcribes it as a fpecies of wild afs with folidungulous feet. 
The African rhinofceros, having invariably two horns, can- 
not be fuppofed as the prototype of the Bosjefmans' paintings 
of the unicorn. Befides, the former frequently occurs among 
their produdlions, and is reprefented as the thick fhort-legged 
figure that it really is, whilft the latter is faid by the peafantry 
to be uniformly met with as a folidungulous animal refembling 
the horfe, with an elegantly fhaped body, marked from the 
ftioulders to the flanks with longitudinal ftripes or bands. The 
greateft number of fuch drawings are faid to be met with in the 
Bambos-berg ; and, as the people who make them live on the 
north fide of this great chain of mountains, the original may 
one day, perhaps, be alfo found there. 
This part of Africa is as yet untrodden ground, none of the 
peafantry having proceeded beyond the mountains. It may be 
faid, perhaps, that if fuch an animal exifted, and was known to 
the natives inhabiting a part of the country not very diftant 
from the borders of the colony, the faft would certainly before 
this time have been afcertained. This, however, does not fol- 
low. Very few of the colonifts have crolTed the Orange river, 
or have been higher along its banks than the part where we 
were under the neceflity of turning off to the fouthward ; and 
the fort of communication that the peafantry have with the 
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