CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE FABLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
CHAPTER II. The History of Cotton and its Introduction into Europe.
APPENDIX. A ( p. 2 ). Sir John Mandeville.
INDEX.
Transcriber's Notes
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Planta Tartarica Boromez
The “Barometz,” or “Tartarian Lamb.”
After Joannes Zahn.
THE VEGETABLE LAMB
OF
TARTARY;
A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
TO WHICH IS ADDED
A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF COTTON AND
THE COTTON TRADE.
BY
HENRY LEE, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S.,
SOMETIME NATURALIST OF THE BRIGHTON AQUARIUM,
AND
AUTHOR OF ‘THE OCTOPUS, OR THE DEVIL-FISH OF FICTION AND OF FACT,’
‘SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED,’ ‘SEA FABLES EXPLAINED,’ ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1887.
All Rights reserved.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
