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 begins : Une Beste est qui est apelee Tigre cest line maniere de Serpent.Hence Polo can only call the Tigers, whose portrait he draws here not… … The Burgut Eagle. (After Atkinson.) 11 a encore aiglics <\t stmt afaitfs n pxznbxi lens it bnuncs rt fcairt rt chabvicu, et e\x prcmunt assc*. The Chinese pilgrim, Sung-Yun (a.D. 518), saw two young lions at the Court ofGandhara. He remarks that the pictures of these animals common in China,…
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