ii 4 TORE EN'S VOYAGE. 



If all the Malabaric oxen are like thofc 

 which we got, I do not wonder, that thofe 

 heathens will not eat their fleih. The mere 

 defcription of them would make the mod hun- 

 gry lofe their appetites. If we mull derive the 

 badnefs of their flefli from the ctjlrus % then 

 either the caufe or the effect is greater here 

 than in Sweden. Perhaps this dainty meat was 

 the occafion, or at lead: contributed to the fol- 

 lowing difeafe : viz. that many of our men 

 were afterward exceedingly tormented by in- 

 tolerable bloody ulcers. 



The uglieft animals we fawwere the Gentoo 

 women, who were quite naked except their. 

 thighs. Their naked and jetty bodies were 

 not in the lead alluring. 



I n Mahie I obtained that curious infect, 

 which has a long fmew between the thorax 

 and body, and is in the little collection which 

 I have fent you. 



s The cefrus bovis depoiits its eggs in the backs of 

 cowf, which turn to maggots as large as the end of one's 

 finger, called in fome counties of £^7<W, wornils. When 

 cattle are peflercd with thefe-, they are always out of con- 

 dition. See Derbains Phyjico Thscl. 



2 Though 



