Reference Base Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his King... |
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Coryat, T., 1616. Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Captivity - Zoo Records |
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Indian Rhino |
(Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither out of the countrie of Bengala, which is a kingdom of most singular fertilitie within the compasse of his dominion.
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