![]() ![]() The male was armed with a single horn on the forehead the female lacked it. It was of reddish color, the size of a pony and had the slender form of an antelope. It is similar to a goat with one horn, very strong, fierce and swift of foot.Įduard Rüppell, while traveling in Kordofan (Central Sudan), was told by the natives about an animal called nillekma and sometimes anase, living in the deserts south of that area. Hiob Ludolf says Ethiopians know a beast called arweharis in Amharic or harish in Arabic. It is wild and timid, of the shape of a horse and the size of an ass. João Bermudes reports the unicorn living in the Kingdom of Damot. It sheds the horn like a stag and hunters find these in the wilderness. It has a single ivory horn on the forehead. It looks like a two-year old colt of ash color, but has the beard of a goat. Luis del Mármol Carvajal said the unicorn lives in the snowy peaks of the Mountains of the Moon in Ethiopia, where the Nile takes its source. ![]() When it realized it was surrounded by surprised men, it began to tremble and jumped back the same way it came. Suddenly, out of the thickest part of the woods, sprang a unicorn. Lobo brings up the story of a Portuguese captain in service of that kingdom his troop was resting one morning in a little valley encircled by trees. They are very timid and rarely come out to the plain. Unicorns live in woods and retired thickets. On its forehead grows a single white horn, five palms long. Jerome Lobo admitted he had never seen it, but while he travelled in Abyssinia in the Agaus region of the Kingdom of Damot, he heard about an extremely swift creature with a single horn, resembling a fine horse of bay color with black tail and long mane hanging to the ground. He also mentioned one-horned cows in the town of Zeila in Ethiopia. Their legs were thin, slender and very shaggy on the hind part. Their necks were not so long with manes hanging on one side. They looked like bay horses, but had the heads of hinds and cloven hooves. Ludovico di Varthema, the first European to travel to Mecca in the disguise of a pilgrim, reported seeing two unicorns in an enclosed space in the temple: a gift from the king of Ethiopia to the sultan of Mecca. In the air, he turns a somersault so that the horn absorbs all the shock of the fall and he escapes unhurt. When he finds himself pursued by hunters, he springs onto the top of some precipice and casts himself down. The denizens described to him a terrible beast, whose strength lies in his horn. Some recalled the description of Cosmas Indicopleustes, who visited Ethiopia around AD 550 and saw four brazen figures of a unicorn in the palace of the king.
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