Polo's Contemporary, Brunetto
Latini, Seems To Speak Of One Of These As Still Existing In His Day In
Germany:
"Autre buef naissent en Alemaigne qui ont grans cors, et sont
bons por sommier et por vin porter." (Paris ed., p. 228; see also
Lubbock, Pre-historic Times, 296-7.)
[Mr. Baber (Travels, pp. 39, 40) writes: "A special interest attaches to
the wild oxen, since they are unknown in any other part of China Proper.
From a Lolo chief and his followers, most enthusiastic hunters, I
afterwards learnt that the cattle are met with in herds of from seven to
twenty head in the recesses of the Wilderness, which may be defined as the
region between the T'ung River and Yachou, but that in general they are
rarely seen.... I was lucky enough to obtain a pair of horns and part of
the hide of one of these redoubtable animals, which seem to show that they
are a kind of bison." Sir H. Yule remarks in a footnote (Ibid. p. 40):
"It is not possible to say from what is stated here what the species is,
but probably it is a gavoeus, of which Jerdan describes three species.
(See Mammals of India, pp. 301-307.) Mr. Hodgson describes the Gaur
(Gavoeus gaurus of Jerdan) of the forests below Nepaul as fierce and
revengeful." - H.C.]
CHAPTER XLVII.
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF CAINDU.
CAINDU is a province lying towards the west,[NOTE 1] and there is only
one king in it.
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