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SUPPOSING a traveller on his return from Africa were to tell a friend in the Heralds' Office that he had seen a beast, in general appearance like an antelope, with divided hoofs and a long tail bunched out at the end like an elephant's: having horns, roughly corrugated and protuberant on his forehead like a ram's, though he could not be quite sure as to their form, because he saw him only in profile, and they seemed movable, one sometimes pointing forward and the other backward: further, that he had two enormous tusks and a lower jaw like a goat's, that is, with a long beard.
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HUGHES, T. The Heraldic Yale . Nature 86, 415 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086415b0
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