[203a] “Asia,” vol. v., p. 800, German edition, 1833–1837.
[203b] See “Asiatic Journal of London,” vol. xxi., p. 786, and vol. xxii., p. 596. A notice of Moorcroft’s manuscripts was inserted in the “Journal of the Geographical Society of London,” 1831.
[203c] Vol. xii, No. 9, p. 120.
[203d] M. Gabet.
[219] In the province of Oui there are three thousand.
[227] Ki-Chan, in fact, is now viceroy of the province of Sse-Tchouen.
[235] Nouveau Journal Asiatique, 1st series, tome iv. and vi.
[245] We had for a long time a small Mongol treatise on natural history, for the use of children, in which a unicorn formed one of the pictorial illustrations.
[246] A centimetre is 33–100 of an inch.
[248] The unicorn antelope of Thibet is probably the oryx-capra of the ancients. It is still found in the deserts of Upper Nubia, where it is called Ariel. The unicorn (Hebrew, reem; Greek, monoceros), that is represented in the Bible, and in Pliny’s “Natural History,” cannot be identified with the oryx capra. The unicorn of holy writ would appear rather to be a pachydermous creature, of great strength and formidable ferocity. According to travellers, it still exists in Central Africa, and the Arabs call it Aboukarn.