>Artists in Medieval and Renaissance Europe produced some interesting >variations on Asian and African creatures from 2nd+ hand accounts, many of >them wonderful. I think there is a theory that the Unicorn was actually a >Rhinoceros?
One can imagine, back then, when someone coupled a description of a Rhinoceros from someone who had seen one in Africa with an existing narwhale tusk souvenir, it would have been hard to refute the existence of unicorns. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
