India: The 'cotton plant' as imagined by John Mandeville (c.1371).

Cotton plant as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville; 'There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie'.

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