Specimens of the Urus were still found in the middle ages in 
Central Europe, the last known example of it having been killed 
in 1627 in the Zoological Garden of Count Samoisky, at Saklorowa 
in Poland. The slaughter of four Urus is mentioned in the 
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century as having taken 
place in the neighbourhood 
of Worms. In the 11th 
century, the Elk and Urus 
were met with in Germany 
La by crusaders en route. In 
the 10th century we find 
that the monks of St. Galle, 
in Switzerland, returned 
thanks to God for its flesh, Fic. 9.—Hunting the Urus. From Globus. 
while in the 9th century 
it was hunted (Fig. 9) by Charlemagne in the forest lands 



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near Aix-la-Chapelle. The writer of the section on ‘ Oxen,” 
in “The Royal Natural History,” states that “old chronicles 

