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xxv The Introdutitor. 
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made of them in Apicius de re culinaria: but nies ae a | 
inus, in his Antig. Lectiones, cells us, that P bryges ~ HLS CUM 
bidos, obefofque, capite nigricante, qui € cariofis premuitur matertis, ster 
delicias habent, ac xylopbagia comediffe luxursa eft. And 4lian de gs 
malibus, in the 14. Book, Chap. 13. p. 817. bas to this purpole this 
paflage. Inter catera animalinm natira propria hoc guoque non ee" 
Indorum rex fecundis menfis er bellariis nan ufdem deiettatur quibus Gi ach, 
gui palmarum pumilarumn fruias expetunt. At ille bermem ae 
planta quadam nafcentem fecundis men is sone tofinm adbibet, ( and Io the 
Indiaus and Negros in Jamaica eat chem at tats Day ) fuavifiinium Gut 
dem illum in Indi aiunt, @& eornm qui guftaverunt nonnulli afferunt, quibus 
ego fidem babuerim, . a 
Alfo, John de Mandeville tells us, that in a certain Iland call’d 
Talache, were, vermes fimiles iis, qut in lignis putridis exiftunt, bofane 
principibus in menfis apponi. ae 
Likewile St. Fiierom in his fecond Book againft Jovian in che fecond 
Tome of his Works, Fraicfort Edit. p. 53. has this Paflage to this 
purpole; namely, In Ponto e Phrygia vermes albos w obefos, quis 
nigello capite funt, to nafcuntur in lignorum carie, pro magnis redi- 
tibus paterfamilias exigit. Et quomodo apud nos Attagen > ficedula, 
mullus (> fcarus in deliciis computantur, ita apud illos Evro¢aney come- 
diffe luxuria eft. 
Ariftotle does extremely extol young foft Cicade, and has been at 
the Pains in his Hiftory of Animals, totell us, chat the time to kill 
them to the beft Advantage, is the Males ante coitum, and the Females 
after, when they are moft favoury. 3 
Atheneus {peaks of a Marriage-Dinner, where one of the greateft 
Difhes were Cicade falted and dried. 
As tor Locufts or Grafhoppers, ‘tis moft certain, that as they are 
a Curle co fome Places, by devouring the Fruits of che Earth, fo they 
are a great Bleffing to others, where the Inhabitants feed on them, and 
are deftitute of other Provifions. They are only dry’d in an Oven, 
and fo kept, or powder’d and mixt with Milk, and 
told, by thofe usd to them, they eat like Shrimps. 
Lopex de Gomara tells us ( Fit. general de tas Indias, cap. 69. ) thac 
after the Wef?-Indians (in the Continent about Santa Martha ) had 
been overcome by the Spaniards, they found many Baskets of Provi- 
hons the Indians had gathered to Traffick with the People furcher 
within Land: the Provifions were thefe Cangrejos, Land-Crabs, which 
burrough in the Ground like Rabbets, feed on Vegetables, and far 
exceea ours in tafte, Caracoles fin cafcara, or naked Snails. Cicada, 
of which before, grillos Crickets, eo langoftas de las que defiriyen los 
panes fecas y Salados, Locutts or Grafhoppers, 
» as I have been 
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