Ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol it 
net ingendzed: and like wile in byꝛdes, and ũches, & rattes 
okthe field. gs 
linie in bis 2 8-booke-the.o. Chapter, faicth that the Pirie, 
wilde harts goe to tge hollow places where ſnakes and fers 
pents are, and with their bꝛeath doe bing them foꝛth and 
tate them Andthis is gathered hereby, that they doe it eps 
ther to heale them of ſome diſeaſe, oꝛ to ware yong againe, 
that they may liue many peeres. The Arabiens doe ampli 
fie this cauſe and fay, that the wild Barts by eating ofthels 
lerpentes, tome to ingender the Beraar ſtone: and they de⸗ 
clare it in this manner, i ae 
In theſe Gatk parts are bꝛed tertaine beaſtes, which are Hier. 
called Darts, which fa; the great heat of the Sommer gee. 
into the caues and hollowe places, where the adders and 
ſnakes and other vermin being of poyſon are, which in that 
country be many and verie venomdus, bycauſe the country 
is ſo hut: and with their bꝛeth they dꝛiue them out, andtread 
vpon them, and kill them, and eate them, and after they are 
filled with them, they goe as ſperdilx as they can where was 
ter is, and they plunge themfelucs therein, in ſuch ſoꝛt that 
they leaue no parts of their bodies out, but their ſnolut, faꝛ 
ta fetch their bꝛeath: z this they da, that with the colones of. 
the water they may delay the greate heate or the venome. 
which they haue eaten: and there ther remaine without 
dꝛinking a dꝛoppe of water, vntil they haue alaxed and cos 
led that feruent heat, wherein they were by feeding vppon 
the benomous bermine. And being in the water there ath 
ingender in the places where the dzops ol water tummeth 
foozthof their eyes, a ſtone, which being came kooꝛth of the 
water, falleth frem them, and it is gathered vp fu toe vlt of 
medicine. This is that in effec tubich the Arabiens Dee 
wzite of the manner bole the Bes as tone is ingender ev: 
A bane procursd and with great diligence fought of find out 
bp uch as hane come from the India of Portingaland (cH 
} . f of thys 
saan pat rng je Chinato kai fhe hene 
