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and carried into the woods, continued there a whole year 

 without any injury : they often attempt the female negroes 

 going into the woods, and keep them against their wills for 

 their company, feeding them plentifully all the time : a tra- 

 veller assures us, that he knew a woman of Loango that 

 lived among them for three years : they build sheds," and 

 use clubs for their defence : sometimes walk upright, and 

 sometimes upon all fours when phantastically disposed : 

 though it resembles man in form, and imitates his actions, 

 it is inferior in sagacity even to the elephant or the beaver : 

 two of these creatures brought to Europe, discovered an 

 astonishing power of imitation, sat at table like men, ate 

 of every thing without distinction, made use of knife, fork, 

 and spoon, drank wine and other liquors : the male of these 

 two creatures being sea-sick, was twice bled in the arm ; 

 and afterwards, when out of order, he showed his arm as 

 desirous of relief by bleeding : another was surprisingly well 

 behaved, drank wine moderately, and gladly left it for milk 

 or other sweet liquors : it had a defluxion upon the breast, 

 which, increasing, caused its death in the space of one year 

 from its arrival, iii. 280. 



Owl, description of the common horned-owl : the screech- 

 owl, and its distinctive marks, iv. 69. Common mark by 

 which all birds of this kind are distinguished from others : 

 general characteristics of birds of the owl kind : though 

 dazzled by a bright day-light, they do not see best in dark- 

 est nights, as imagined : seasons in which they see best : 

 nights of moonlight the times of their successful plunder : 

 seeing in the night, or being dazzled by day, not alike in 

 every species of this kind : instances in the white, or barn- 

 owl, and in the brown horned-owl : description of the great 

 horned-owl : names of several owls without horns : these 

 horns, nothing more than two or three feathers that stand 

 up on each side of the head over the ear : times of making 

 their excursions : places where found in the day-time : Fa- 

 ther Kircher having set the voices of birds to music, has 

 given all the tones of the owl note, which make a most tre- 

 mendous melody : sometimes bewildered : what they do in 

 that distress : aversion of small birds to the owl : how they 

 injure and torment him in the day-time : an owl appearing 

 by day sets a whole grove in an uproar : small birds some- 

 times hunt the owl until evening, when, recovering sight, he 

 makes the foremost pay dear for their sport, and does not 

 always leave man an unconcerned spectator : sport of bird- 

 catchers, by counterfeiting the cry of the owl : in what man- 

 ner the great horned-owl is used by falconers to lure the 

 kite, when wanted for training the falcon : places where the 

 great horned-owl breeds : its nest, and number of eggs : 



