Chapter from the book
Purchas, S. 1625. Purchas his pilgrimage, or relations of the world. London, Henrie Fetherstone. vols. 1-4.
Book chapter
Book chapter
Coryat, T. 1625. A letter of Mr Thomas Coryat, which travailed by land from Jerusalem to the court of the Great Mogol, written to Mr L Whitaker. vol. 1, pp. 592-602
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Santos, J. dos 1625. Collections out of the Voyage and Historie of Friar Joao dos Sanctos his Aethiopia Orientalis, et Varia historia. vol. 2, pp. 1535-1567. vol. 2, pp. 1535-1567
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Varthema, L. di 1625. The travels of Lewis Barthema or Vertoman into Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, and India. vol. 2, pp. 1483-1495
Note
Location
India
Subject
Distribution
Species
Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)
William Finch, died 1613
Travels in India
Printed by:
1625 Observations of William Finch, Merchant. In: Purchas, Samuel, His Pilgrimes, volume 1, part 1, book 4, chapter 4, pp. 414-440.
Purchas copied the chapters from an original manuscript obtained after Finch died in 1613. It describes a journey from Surat via Agra to Lahore in 1608 to 1611.
English text from Purchas, 1625
[1625: ***] About Oude = Oudh = Lucknow
Here is great trade, and such abundance of Indian asse-horne that they make hereof bucklers and divers sorts of drinking cups. There are of these hornes, all the Indians affirme, some rare of great price, no jewell comparable, some esteeming them the right unicornes horne.
