African coast rat, Cape mole rat, African mole rat or sand mole. Georychus capensis (Mus myotalpa maritima). "The flesh is by some travellers considered as good eating. Indeed there is scarcely anything eatable which some do not consider good and even delicious.". Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature" (1798~1802) published by Harrison, London.