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RHINOCEROS. — RESIN-BUSH. — CORN-EATER. 
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Rhinoceros) n'fer. The animal from which it takes the name, is 
becoming every day more scarce in this part of the country, and 
indeed, is at present rarely to be met with. It is fond of inhabiting 
an open, dry country, such as this is, abundant in low bushes ; but the 
advances of the colonists, and their destructive huntings, have 
alarmed, and driven, it more into the interior of the continent. 
The inhabitants of this district, when in want of resin, use as a 
substitute, a gum which exudes from different species of shrubs * ; 
which they therefore call Harpuis bosch (Resin bush). Of this gum, 
a considerable quantity might be collected. 
In the evening we arrived at A'/z/ZewZ^a-^ (Pit Mountain), probably 
so named from some holes or hollows, where water may generally be 
found ; for, in dry countries, any circumstance relating to water, is of 
sufficient importance to distinguish that place. Thus it is that the 
Dutch word Fontein is made such liberal use of in every part of the 
Colony : the Hottentot word Kammci (water,) is not less frequently 
found in the composition of the aboriginal names. 
In taking possession of the farm-house here, we disturbed a 
number of sparrows f which are said to be a troublesome 
bird to farmers, and well deserving the name they have given 
it, of Koornvreeter (Corn-eater). It has very much the manners 
of the common domestic sparrow of Europe, and seems also to 
* Species of Othon?ia, one of which is, perha 
The botany of this day's journey was disti: 
Relhania paleacea 
Othonna trifida 
Heliophila pubescens. C. G. 1334. 
Mesemhryanthemiim campestre. C. G. 
1 34-0. Sesquipedale erectum. Flores 
rosei. Affine M.pulchello, Haworthii. 
Limosella coerulea. C. G. 1341. Planta 
pollicaris. Flos coeruleus 
Trichonema tortuosa, B. 
Grimviia campestris. C. G. 1344. 2. 
Tortula recurvata. C. G. 1344. 4. 
Hujus et precedentis, figuram dedit 
f Fringilla 
L L i 
IS, the Othonna trifida of Thunberg. 
guished by 
Hooker in opere suo pulcherrimo 
de Muscis Exoticis. 
Lanipila. C. G. 1336. Genus Cotula: 
afRne. Nomen a lana et pila; ob 
semina lana involuta, et in capitulo 
spherico conglomerata. 
Eriocephalus 
Pteronia 
Oxalis 
Androcymbium 
Tillcea 
Erinus. 
rcvata 
