Livingstone, David & Schapera, Isaac (1960) Livingstone's Private Journals, 1851-1853, Chatto & Windus, pp. 221, 281

There is an undiscovered antelope in these parts; also an animal which from its description and horns I conceive to be the Indian bison. It is named in Serotse Liombikala. Large horns like an ox. Gondi, short horns–burrows. Bumé or Boomy, one horned animal, probably a variety of Rhinoceros.
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Few die under this treatment [of suction and an emetic] unless bitten by the Mokhoapa, a black snake or a little yellow basilisk.

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