Pelliot, P., 1902. Memoires sur les coutumes du Cambodge. Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 2 (2): 123-177
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Value - Related to Horn |
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Asian Rhino Species |
Translates book by Tcheou Ta-Kouan, of the Yuan dynasty, called Ts'ao-t'ing.
Cambodia - among the more precious productions, there are ivory and rhinoceros horn. The white horn is veined and much esteemed; the inferior quality is black.
Pellito 1902; the horn is also part of some medicines. The Arabic travellers noted that in China there were made belts which have an enormous price, cf. Reinaud, Relation, I, 29, 34, 36.
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