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Equus zebra (Mountain zebra)

[In lower margin, hand G:] Zebra or Cape wild horse. [scale of 4 foot 6 inches, Rhinelands]

Massonia depressa Houtt

[Hand S2: ] Massonia Lattifolia

Crocuta crocuta (Spotted hyena)

[In upper margin, hand G:] Male hyena, called tiger-wolf at the Cape. The Cape, 1 July 1777. R.J. Gordon. Drawn lying af…

Robert Jacob Gordon at the kraal of the Khoisan leaders Gronjam and Doroep, with an ox being slaughtered as a peace ritual

[In lower margin, hand G:] View of the land on the 31st degree latitude south, and 2 degrees longitude east from Cape To…

View of the Vuilkop and the Perdeberd in Camdebo seen from the south east

[within image, hand Sch:] Springbuck Hartebeest t.

Giraffe-hunt near the Orange River in the vicinity of the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River

[In lower margin, hand G:] View of the land at the latitude of 28 degrees 32 minutes south and longitude of 3 degrees ea…

Cape ewe

[In lower margin, hand G:] African sheep from the interior, from the Einiqua country of the Hottentots. The ewe. All ar…

Georychus capensis (Cape mole-rat)

[In upper margin, hand G:] So-called Cape bless-mole, The Cape 6 August 1777, R.J. Gordon. This animal although it live…

Map of Table Bay and Robben Island

Khoi or Gonaqua woman with a child at the breast

[Hand S3:] Hottentot woman, at Frederik Potgieter’s at the Little Fish River the bands around her legs are not entrails …

The plateau of Table Mountain The landowner De Cleeff Lion's Kloof Bay [key:] Plan of the City of the Cape of Good Hop…

Map of the Southern Part of South Africa

Map of Cape Town

[Upper right:] Plan of the Cape of Good Hope as found under the administration of the Noble Lord, the Baron van Platten…

View of the Drostdy

[In upper margin, hand G:] The Drostdy at Swellendam, looking towards the south east [In lower margin referencing the l…

View of the Dutch East India Company’s cattle-post Groenkloof

[Within border, hand S3:] Groenkloof.

Hippopotamus hunt at the Seekoei River

[In lower margin, hand G:] View of the Plettenberg River at the latitude of 31 degrees south, and longitude of six deg…

Crocuta crocuta (Spotted hyena)

[Hand G:] drawing of a part of a female hyena, which are found in abundance at the Cape of Good Hope, where they are cal…

Panorama of Mossel Bay, seen from the south east

[Within image, hand S3:] Island Mouth of the Little Brak River Mouth of the Great Brak River

Panorama of the east side of False Bay, from Simonsberg at the left to Cape Hangklip at the right

[In lower margin referencing letters within the image, hand S3:] View of the east side of False Bay, starting at the Han…

Suricata suricatta (Meerkats)

[In lower margin, hand G:] These animals are plentiful in the interior and live in holes in the ground. They have only f…

Standing Khoi woman

[Above the image, hand G:] Hottentot woman with her handkerchief, that is a foxtail

Man, probably of the AmaXhosa, wearing a leopard skin and holding a spear

[Hand S3:] Caffre

Agama atra (Southern rock agama)

[Hand G:] Salamander from Namaqualand.

Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraffe), skeleton

[No inscription] [Scale of 15 foot 4 inches Rhineland]

Crab (probably of the Potamon genus)

[No inscription]