[297] _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China._ Huc and Gabet. Translated by W. Hazlitt, vol. ii. p. 245. [298] Gosse, _Romance of Natural History_. [299] Prejevalski's _Mongolia_, vol. ii. p. 207; London, 1876. [300] See _'Rh Ya_ and _Yuen Keen Luy Han_, vol. ccccxxix. p. 1. [301] This height will have to be reduced in accordance with the difference between the magnitude of old and new standards of measurement. [302] A poet, native of Hang Cheu. [303] _Vide_ the translation into French by L. Serrurier, Leyden, 1875. [304] "The Chinese have a tradition that this animal skips, and is so holy or harmless that it won't even tread upon an insect, and that it is to come in the shape of an incomparable man, a revealer of mysteries, supernatural and divine, and a great lover of all mankind, who is expected to come, about the time of a particular constellation in the heavens, on a special mission for their benefit. The Japanese unicorn answers the description of the animal bearing that name, and supposed to be still extant in Ethiopia, and which is equal to the size of a small horse, reddish in colour, and slender as a gazelle, the male having one horn. The unicorn is the ancient crest of the kings of Israel, and is still retained by the Mikado." _Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan_, p. 116; N. McLeod, Nagasaki, 1875. [305] Vol. ccccxxx. p. 18. [306] Vol. ccccxxxii. p. 38. [307] This will have to be reduced by nearly one-half, to equate it with the present measures of length. [308] _San Li T'u_, vol. viii. p. 3. The _San Li T'u_ is an illustrated, modern, edition by Nieh Tsung I. of the old _San Li_; it was written during the reign of the great patron of literature, Kang Hi (A.D. 1661 to 1723). [309] Vol. vii. No. 1, p. 72. [310] Harris, _Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa_. The Oryx Capensis--The Gemsbock. "The figure of the renowned unicorn can be traced in all the ancient ear-rings, coins, and Latin heraldic insignia, to some one of the members of the oryxine family; of all the whimsies of antiquity, whether emanating from the unbridled and fertile fancies of the people of Egypt and Persia, or devised by the more chaste and classic taste which distinguished Greece and Rome, the unicorn--unquestionably the most celebrated--is the chimera which has in modern ages engrossed the largest portion of attention from the curious.