Library of Cryptozoology

My boatman informed me that he had seen an animal, with long wide spreading horns like an ox, called liombikalela –perhaps the modern bison; also another animal, which does not live in the water, but snorts like a hippopotamus, and is like that animal in size–it has a horn, and may be the Asiatic rhinoceros. And we passed some holes of a third animal, which burrows from the river inland, has short horns, and feeds only by night. I did not notice the burrows at the time of passing, but I give you the report as I got it ... and there is a pretty little antelope on the Sesheké, called " teeanyane ," which seemed new to me. These animals did not lie in my line, so you must be content with this brief notice.

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. ... Few die under this treatment [of suction and an emetic] unless bitten by the Mokhoapa, a black snake or a little yellow basilisk .