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The Unicorn: Japanese

FIG. 83 -THE KI-RIN. (From a Japanese Drawing in a Temple at Kioto.) identical with the Chang and of a black colour; and they confirm Kwoh's opinion, although the 'Rh Ya forgets to allude to the three characters denoting the black colour. It was probably some unicorn animal which is referred to in the General History of China, called the Tong Kien Kang Mu (vide Père de Mailla's translation), as having been pre-- sented to the Emperor Yung Loh of the Ming dynasty, in A.D. 1415, by envoys from Bengal. De Mailla says it was called a Ki-Lin by the Chinese out of flattery.