 | 1888
...rhinoceros, as he again talks of them in Java the Less (Sumatra) as being nearly as big as elephants. They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those...horn, but with the tongue alone ; for this is covered over with long and strong prickles, and when savage with any one they crush him under their knees and... | |
 | 1888
...rhinoceros, as he again talks of them in Java the Less (Sumatra) as being nearly as big as elephants. They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those...horn, but with the tongue alone ; for this is covered over with long and strong prickles, and when savage with any one they crush him under their knees and... | |
 | Henri Cordier, Gustaaf Schlegel, Edouard Chavannes - 1896
...north of Sumatra) and numerons unicorns, which are very nearly as big. They have hair like that of the buffalo, feet like those of an elephant, and a horn...in the middle of the forehead, which is black and тегу thick. They do no mischief, however, with the horn, but with the tongue alone; for this is... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1902 - 163 pages
...wild elephants in the country, and numerous unicorns (rhinoceroses), which are very nearly as big. They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those...the forehead, which is black and very thick. They delight much to abide in mire and mud. 'Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon, and not in the least... | |
 | Berthold Laufer - 1914 - 71 pages
...swine. There are one-horned, two-horned, and three-horned ones." » the rhinoceros on Java, says, " They do no mischief, however, with the horn, but with...their knees and then rasp him with their tongue]." YULE comments that the belief in the formidable nature of the tongue of the rhinoceros is very old... | |
 | José Rabasa - 1993 - 281 pages
...dissolves the idyllic image of the unicorn by investing it with the image and habits of the rhinoceros: "They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like...and a horn in the middle of the forehead, which is very black and very thick."27 Columbus himself produces parallel rationalizations of mythical beings.... | |
 | Andrea Gerbig, Oliver Mason (M.A.) - 2008 - 327 pages
...41% 18 (2 of 14) = 14% no occurrence 17 (3 of 26) = 12% no occurrence 16 (Oof 6) = 0% (3 of 11) 27% - that of a buffalo, feet like those of an elephant,...middle of the forehead, which is black and very thick A comparison with the Early Modern English section of the Helsinki Corpus (1500-1710), shows that out... | |
 | ...identify the unicorn with the rhinoceros, which agrees well enough with Marco Polo's account (III. 9, "They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like...of the forehead, which is black and very thick"), but not so well with this horse-like beast, and still less with the two " unicorns in the temple of... | |
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They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those of an elephant, and a horn in the middle of the forehead, which is black and very thick. They do no mischief, however, with the horn, but with the tongue alone ; for this is covered all over with... 