INDEX. 277 



Gaze-hound hunts by the eye, iii. 16. 



Gazelles, neither goat nor deer ; partake of both natures ; they 

 form a distinct kind; their description ; of all animals it has 

 the most beautiful eye ; eastern poets compare the eyes of 

 their mistresses to those of the gazelle ; Buffon makes but 

 twelve varieties; their names and descriptions, ii. 281. 

 Comparing them together, we find but slight distinctions ; 

 are inhabitants of the warmer climates ; no animals, but of 

 the winged kind, can overtake them; are pursued by falcons; 

 and this hunting is a principal amusemeat among the great 

 in the East ; also hunted with the ounce ; another way of 

 taking them; kept in solitary and inaccessible places, 291. 

 The bubalus, more properly one of Africa, 346. The most 

 usual prey for the lion in deserts and forests ; the prey of 

 the panther, 4-07. Pursued by the jackall makes towards 

 houses and towns, iii. 57. 



Gekko, a kind of salamander, v. 310. 



Generation most complete where fewest animals are produced, 

 i. 385. 



Genette, its odour more faint than civet; description of this 

 animal ; resembles the martin ; more easily tamed ; Bellonius 

 has seen them at Constantinople tame as cats ; glands open 

 differently from others of its kind ; called the Cat of Con- 

 stantinople ; never found in mountains, or dry places ; its 

 fur valuable; species not much diffused; countries where 

 it is found ; the most beautiful, cleanly, and industrious 

 animal ; keeps a house free from mice and rats by its smell, 

 iii. 99. 



Georgians, their description, ii. 88. 



Gerenda, a serpent to which the natives of Calicut, and those 

 of the Mosambique coast, pay divine honours, v. 377. 



Gesner minutely describes a variety of mice-traps, iii. 182. 

 places bats among birds, 232. 



Giant, in England, as late as King James I. the court had 

 one, ii. 105. 



Giants, probability of the race affirmed, possibility of their 

 existence denied ; Grew's opinion ; Ferdinand Magellan, a 

 Portuguese, first discovered a race of such people, towards 

 the extreme coast of South America; assent to the exist- 

 ence of this gigantic race of mankind ; travellers confirm it; 

 seen here, have the same defects of understanding as 

 dwarfs ; are heavy, phlegmatic, stupid, and inclined to sad- 

 ness, ii. 1JO. 



Gibbon, the long-armed ape, its description, iii. 294% 



Gills, their free play prevented, the animal falls into con- 

 vulsions, and dies, v. 15. 



Gilt-head, called dolphin by sailors ; its description, v. 119. 



Glands, furnish the foetid substance in animals of the weasel 

 kind, iii. 66. Of the genette, open differently from others, 



