An account of the transactions of His Majesty's mission to the court of Persia, : in the years 1807-11, / by Sir Harford Jones Brydges, to which is appended, a brief history of the Wahauby.

  • Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 1st Baronet
Date:
1834
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Credit: An account of the transactions of His Majesty's mission to the court of Persia, : in the years 1807-11, / by Sir Harford Jones Brydges, to which is appended, a brief history of the Wahauby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    126 “ suntcui ejusmodi ut illico denarrabimus. Alterum eorum quern “ constat longe proceriorem esse : pullo equino triginta menses nato “ baud absimilem crediderim : prominet in fronte cornu unicum “ longitudine trium cubitorum : longe natu minor est alter : utpote “ anniculus ac equino pullo simillimus: ejus comu quaterni paJmi “ longitudinem baud excedit. Coloris est id animal equi mustel- “ lini, caput cervi instar: collonon oblongo : rarissimagque jube ab “ altera parte solum dependentis. Tibias babet tenues : easdemque “ graciles admodum trinuli mos: ungulas anteriorum pedum “ bifidas habct: caprinos pedes ferme referentes. Tibiarum poste- “ riorum pars exterior villosa est: pilique plurimi: sane id aial “ ferum videtur. Verum ferotiam nescio qua comitate condivit “ eos unicornes quidem Sultano Mecbae dono dedit ecu rem “ inventu rarissimam, rem donoque preciosiorem. Aducti sunt “ ex ADthiopise ab iEthiopum rege: ut eo munire necessitudinem “ conj unctissimi cum Sultano Mediae praefecto iniret.” Varthema, or Bartbema, was translated into English in the year 1576, by Richard Eden, which translation I find the well-known, and not more known than esteemed, Mr. Evans, bookseller, in Pall Mall, has inserted at the end of bis republication of Hak- luyt’s Voyages—which I now also lay before the reader. “ Of the Unicorns of the Temple of Mecca, which are not seen in any other place. “ On the other part of the Temple are Parkes, or places en- “ closed, where are seen unicornes named of the Greeks, Mono- “ cerotae, and are there shewed to the people for a Myracle, and not “ without good reason, for their seldomness and strange nature. “ The one of them is much higher than the other, yet not much “ unlike to a coolte of thyrtye months of age; in the forehead “ groweth only one borne, in manner right forth, of the length of “ three cubits. The other is much younger—of the age of one “ year, and like a young coolte: the borne of this is the length of “ four handfuls. The beast is of the color of a horse of weesell “ color, and hath a head like an hart, but no long neck, a thynne “ mane hanging onlye on one syde, tlieyr legges are tliyn and “ slender like a fawne or hynde, the hoofs of the feete are divided
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