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Whether the Rhinoceros, who bore thefe two> 
Horns, be a diftindt Species of that Animal from that 
of Afia, future Travellers muft determine 
Thefe Horns were given me by my worthy and 
ingenious Friend and Acquaintance Charles Lockyer 
Efq; who was (as I have been told) fent in a Ship 
of Strength with a Power given him by the Eajl- 
Indian and African Companies, to go on their Affairs 
to that unfrequented Coaft which common Travellers 
have been afraid to go to becaufe of the Barbarity and 
Cruelty commonly faid to belong to its Inhabitants, 
and with which the Egyptians , and from them the 
Greeks and 'Romans, had a greater Intercourfe and 
Knowledge than with the Southern Parts of Afia,. 
where that Animal is generally found with only one 
Horn. I am, 
SIR, 
Tour humble Servant , 
Hans Sloane, 
Pietra de Serpenti di Mombazza Redi Efperienze , 
Nat. p. ?9, Tab. II. Lapis Serpentis de Mom- 
baza, Edit. Latin, p. 82. 
D R. Waldo, an old Acquaintance of mine, went 
into the Eajl Indies, on purpofe to fearch after 
and collctt the natural Productions and Curiofities 
of thofe Parts, efpeciaily fuch as related to the Cure 
of Difeafes, which he fent from time to time to his 
Sifter he left in London, with Directions to fhew 
them to the Earl of Pembroke, Sir Godfrey Kneller, 
and 
