>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/



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