The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . este vonoeltlicher RiesentJiiere in Beziehiinq zu Ostasia-tischen Sagen und Chinesischen Schriften {Ahhandl. Wissensch. zuBerlin aits dem Jahre 1839, p. 51). ^ P. S. Pallas, De reUquiis anhnaliinn exoticorum per Asiam horealemrepertis complementum {Novi commentarii Acad. Sc Petropolltanm, anno 1772, p. 576), and Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des RussischenRelchii, Th. III. St. Petersburg, 1776, p. 97. IX.] RHINOCEROS HORNS. 307 the same t
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . este vonoeltlicher RiesentJiiere in Beziehiinq zu Ostasia-tischen Sagen und Chinesischen Schriften {Ahhandl. Wissensch. zuBerlin aits dem Jahre 1839, p. 51). ^ P. S. Pallas, De reUquiis anhnaliinn exoticorum per Asiam horealemrepertis complementum {Novi commentarii Acad. Sc Petropolltanm, anno 1772, p. 576), and Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des RussischenRelchii, Th. III. St. Petersburg, 1776, p. 97. IX.] RHINOCEROS HORNS. 307 the same time to exert a like beneficial influence on the arrow,tending to make it hit the mark, as, according to the hunterssuperstition among ourselves in former days, some cats clawsand owls eyes placed in the bullet mould had on the ball. Thenatives believed that the crania and horns of the rhinocerosfound along with the remains of the mammoth belonged togigantic birds, regarding which there were told in the tents ofthe Yakut, the Ostyak and the Tunguse many tales resemblingthat of the bird Roc in the Thousand and One Nights. Ermann. SIBERIAN RHINOCEROS HORN. Presprved in the Museum at St. PetersbuTf,. and Middendorff even suppose that such finds two thousandyears ago gave occasion to Herodotus account of the Arimaspiand the gold-guarding dragons {Herodotus, Book IV. chap. 27).Certain Tt is that during the middle ages such grip-clawswere preserved, as of great value, in the treasuries and art col-lections of that time, and that they gave rise to many a romanticstory in the folk-lore both of the West and East. Even inthis century Hedenstroni, the otherwise sagacious traveller onthe Siberian Polar Sea, believed that the fossil rhinoceros horns X 2 338 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. were actual grip-claws. For he mentions in his oft-quotedwork, that he had seen such a claw 20 verschoks (09 metre) inlength, and when he visited St. Petersburg in 1830, the scientificmen there did not succe
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