n of a Tiger seems almost to have dropped out of theEuropean mind during the Middle Ages. Thus in a mediaeval Bestiary, a chapter onthe Tiger bec^ins : Une Beste est qui est apelce Tigre cest une viamere de berpent.Hence Polo can only call the Tigers, whose portrait he draws here not… … The Burgut Eagle. (After Atkinson.) 11 a .n«« mXxt^ ^c mxM afatti^ a puni.vc k«5 zi l^0«VC0 rt bain ti clmbriou,z\ t\\ ptiunrnt «ssc^. The Chinese pilgrim, Sung-Yun (a.d. 518), saw two young lions at *e Court ofGandhara. He remarks that the pictures of these animals common m China, werenot at all…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Inscriptions, Chinese
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