A.D. 

 1555. 



The head of 

 an Elephant. 



Sir Andrew 

 Judde. 

 The contem- 

 plations of 

 Gods works. 



The descrip- 

 tion and pro- 

 perties of the 

 Elephant. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



tusks grow in the upper jaw downeward, and not in the 

 nether jaw upward, wherein the Painters and Arras 

 workers are deceived. At this last voyage was brought 

 from Guinea the head of an Elephant, of such huge 

 bignesse, that onely the bones or cranew thereof, beside 

 the nether jaw & great tusks, weighed about two hundred 

 weight, and was as much as I could well lift from the 

 ground : insomuch that considering also herewith the 

 weight of two such great teeth, the nether jaw with 

 the lesse teeth, the tongue, the great hanging eares, the 

 bigge & long snout or troonke, with all the flesh, braines, 

 and skinne, with all other parts belonging to the whole 

 head, in my judgement it could weigh litle lesse then 

 five hundred weight. This head divers have seene in 

 the house of the worthy marchant sir Andrew Judde, 

 where also I saw it, and beheld it, not only with my 

 bodily eyes, but much more with the eyes of my mind 

 and spirit, considering by the worke, the cunning and 

 wisedome of the workemaister : without which considera- 

 tion, the sight of such strange and wonderfull things may 

 rather seeme curiosities, then profitable contemplations. 



The Elephant (which some call an Oliphant) is the 

 biggest of all foure footed beasts, his forelegs are longer 

 then his hinder, he hath ancles in the lower part of his 

 hinder legges, and five toes on his feete undivided, his 

 snout or tronke is so long, and in such forme, that it 

 is to him in the stead of a hand : for he neither eateth 

 nor drinketh but by bringing his tronke to his mouth, 

 therewith he helpeth up his Master or keeper, therewith 

 he overthroweth trees. Beside his two great tusks, he 

 hath on every side of his mouth foure teeth, wherewith 

 he eateth and grindeth his meate : either of these teeth 

 are almost a span in length, as they grow along in the 

 jaw, and are about two inches in height, and almost as 

 much in thicknesse. The tuskes of the male are greater 

 then of the female : his tongue is very litle, and so farre 

 in his mouth, that it cannot be seene : of all beastes they 

 are most gentle and tractable, for by many sundry wayes 



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