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@fIE differentiation between these
two animals Is subject OF unusual
III Interest TO the sportsman'natural
ist. To trace the origin OF the
~ popular misconception that the two
lC<7=r-yyrz0 names are synonymous mistake
In SNIlD i to which even some Of our test
I9&N known apOrtsmcn OF today must.
IL pNN i | plead guilty We, have to dive into
t.aU..-O the not always limpId depths OF
N early mediaeval history. For the
event which has probably more to
do than any other with the PRONUNCIATION OF this
error was the famous hunt given by Charemagne
to the ambassadors OF Iaroun,alRa in the
dank H2-cyian woods that surrounded his hunt
t#g edge HerIstaum. According to the original
account By the monk Eginhard OF St Gall, the
aurocfs were Of such errorinstng appearance
10 the men from the east that they could not
bear the sight OF them and fed from the
cmperor's side. The latter, attacked By ih" ierC.
est OF these monsters missed the vital spot,
with the result that before brave lsambart could
slay II the emperor slightly Wounded IN the
thigh and had his neither garment torn into
Shreds, Rushing to his side the assembled cour
tiers offered 70 divert themselves OF their own
hose, but the emperor laughngy rejected their
offers. declaring that he intended to show him
self In his sorry plight to the fair HiIdegardc
who VAS great huntrcss herself Needless TO
say. this adventure proved Il medieval scoop"
u' the gaudiest kind but in the course OF I'm
numbered retellIngs the aurochs became a WI
sent rs was called the European bison. and since
that time pcrpleXing confusion has rcgnod be
tween these two animals That the true aurochs
which became extinct three hundred years ago
was an entirely different animal from the bison
whose name alas is also the list OF animals
about to share the auroch's fate. is now a fact
known to all scientific men To the writer the
poor old bisOns pathetic fate appeals more par
tICularly, for when shooting IN the Rockies In
the seventies OF last century he still saw them in
herds OF ten thousand. But as the men who can
claim to have seen the same marvellous sight
will before long follow these lordly inhabitants
Of the wilds to the happy hunting grounds. the
atudy OF the past history Of these two species
has for some people unusual attractions And
not the least interesting phase OF 1t Is the col.
Letting OF pictures made at n time when both
beasts were still roaming over the wastes o,
the earth" or had but recently disappeared
or the earliest OF all pictures Of what was prob
ably meant 10 be the bison. interesting ari
Gle which recently appeared In an illustrated week
~, In which the roof pictures In the Altamira
Cave were reproduced, gave one capital idea.
Alter r gap OF untold centuries we reach the
various pictorial records left to us by the chls
els grGvers or brushes OF the classic ages
Among those who have made important discov
cries respecting the distribution OF the aurochs
Professor Conrad Keller. the well.known Zurich
Zoulogtst occupies Il prominent place His dis
coverics in the ruins OF the ancient palace OF
King Minos In Crete of no fewer than sixteen
Inr, l,,,
was the original wild OF Europe or aurochs.
show that Il lived there at one period and that
the famous legend OF the minotaur has n sub.
6tratum Of truth, From his pages We borrow an
illustration OF an important frcsco in Knossos de-
plcting an aurOChs In the act OF impang help
lesslooking victim, while n bold bullGghter Is
actually turning somersaut over the back OF
the beast, third possibly female looker.on at.
tempting to seize the bulls tail the scene being
probably enacted In nm arena. II Is possible that
the Thescus story came from the slaughter OF
captves In such exhibitions Several other pic.
lures have been recently discovered which be.
long 10 the Mlnos period, t. e., between 2OOO and
1900 B c. Professor Kcllcrs highly instructive
writings contain many other illustrations OF Dos
primIfenius
Skipping tens OF centuries, we reach the Hes.
tlaries the most ancient OF which originated in
the period we touched at the outset when speak.
ing OF CharlemaGnes aurochs.hunt These ex.
Ceedngly primitive pictorial records do not add
much to our information; the choice hurts one"
rs Germans describe that state OF uncertainty in
regard to what tho mOnastC artists meant to
represent by their crude attempts Skipping a
few more centuries. We at last reach. In the be.
ginning OF the fifteenth century, fairly intelligent
accounts OF the animals habitat and are fur.
ushed with drawings presenting features SUN.
Ciently distinct TO indicate even to eyes accus.
toned to Photographic accuracy, the Identity OF
the animal tho picture means TO represent.
Very curious Is the circumstance to which,
by the way, nobody has so far drawn attention,
that mono OF the French sporting books OF the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. such as Roy
Modus." Castor Phoebus." "Gace de Ia Buigne"
and "Fontalnes.Guerln," mentions either the