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Cruz, G. da, 1569. Tractado em que se cotam muito por estenso as cousas da China, co suas particula-ridades, e assi do reyno d'Ormuz [Evora, Andre de Burgos]
 | In: Boxer, C.R. South China in the sixteenth century. London, Hakluyt Society, Works vol. 106: pp. i-xci, 1-388 |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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The Laos came to Camboja down a river many days' journey. ... It passeth through many untilled and deserted countries of great woods and forests, where there is innumerable elephants and many buffaloes ... and certain great cattle which in that country they cal Badas of which the male have a pointless and blunt horn in their forehead, and some of the horns are spotted with single colours, and others all black, [78] others of a wax colour; but they have no virtue, but only for the hemorroides or piles; and after the elephant there is no other greater beast, the hair of it is brown, and it is footed like an elephant, the head like a cow, and on the chest a great lump of flesh that falls from around the nape, whereof I did eat when travelling in those parts.
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