RHINOCEROS HORNS. 
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gigantic birds, regarding which there were told in the tents of 
the Yakut, the Ostyak and the Tiinguse many tales resembling 
that of the bird Roc in the Thousand and One Nights. Ermann 
and Middendorff even suppose that such finds two thousand 
years ago gave occasion to Herodotus’ account of the Arimaspi 
SIBERIAN RHINOCEROS HORN. 
Preserved in the Museum at St. Petersburg. 
and the gold-guarding dragons (^Herodotus, Book IV. chap. 2/). 
Certain it is that during the middle ages such “ grip-claws ” 
were preserved, as of great value, in the treasuries and art col¬ 
lections of that time, and that they gave rise to many a romantic 
story in the folk-lore both of the West and East. Even in 
