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India, Cattle, Tigers.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1738

We are told that 300,000 Souls have perished in this storm; but believe the number is exaggerated; a prodigious Quantity of Cattle of all sorts, a great many Tigers in the lower Ganges, and several Rhinoceros were drowned, even a great many Caymans, Amphibious Animals, were killed by the furious agitation of the waters, and […]

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Rhinoceros.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, March 28, 1854

The only rhinoceros in the country, valued at $10,000, on exhibition at New York, ate hay Sunday night, and fell down dead on Monday morning.

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Hunting.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850

A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]

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Killing A Rhinoceros.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, July 13, 1833

Being on a visit at the quarantine station at Edmonstone Island, I was informed, that a Rhinoceros has several times made his appearance close to the residence at Middeton Point, on Saugor Island; I was requested being a killer, to go over and try my luck. I did so, and made preparation for a regular […]

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Elephant And Rhinoceros.

Monday, October 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, April 24, 1840

On the 24th ult. the elephant and rhinoceros, of the New York City Zoological Institute, got together and had a regular fight.-Before the keeper could part them, the rhinoceros was dead. He was valued at $15,000.

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Rhinoceros a Bad Foe.

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 29, 1909

     While easily stalked, the rhinoceros is a dangerous customer, as most men will agree who have hunted him. If the rhinoceros gets one scent he almost invariably charges, often probably from sheer curiosity, but that does not make him any the easier to dispose of. Moreover, he runs and turns at a speed inconceivable […]

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Crocodile Kidnaps Rhino.

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, September 19, 1922

A traveler in Africa gives an idea of the strength and size of some of the crocodiles which inhabit the rivers and pools of the Dark continent. He describes a huge rhinoceros enjoying a mud bath, gradually disappearing from view in spite of its most frantic struggles and being carried to the depths by a […]

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Paradise of Hunters.

Saturday, June 12, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 18, 1901

Explorer Discovers it in Africa Where men Have Annihilated Each Other. Lion Reposes With Hartebeeste.      London, June 18.-Sir Harry Hamiton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after as absence of two years. He brings stories of uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.” Sir Harry relates that […]

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