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their nests ; some of this tribe called by our seamen the 

 booby; our men first coming among them, were not dis- 

 trusted or avoided ; they stood to be shot at in flocks, till 

 every one was destroyed ; the females let them take their 

 eggs without any resistance; the penguin lays but one egg, 

 in frequented shores ; burrows like a rabbit ; three or four 

 take possession of one hole, and hatch ; one is placed as a 

 sentinel to warn of approaching danger, 390. 



Peninsula (of India), on one side the coasts are near half the 

 year harassed by violent hurricanes, and northern tempests, 

 i. 295. The people there employ the elephant chiefly in 

 carryingor drawing burdens, iii. 352. 



Penpark-hole, in Gloucestershire, twenty-five fathoms in per- 

 pendicular depth ; its description, from Captain Sturmey, 

 i. 60. 



Pepper, the Indians prefer that devoured and voided uncon- 

 cocted by the toucan, before the pepper fresh gathered 

 from the tree, iv. 194. 



Perch, a prickly-finned thoracic fish ; its description, v. 121. 



Perfumes, some physicians think all perfumes unwholesome ; 

 our delight in perfumes seems made by habit ; many bodies 

 at a distance give an agreeable perfume, and nearer have a 

 most ungrateful odour, ii. 48. No perfume has a stronger 

 or more permanent smell than musk, 297. The scent of 

 the martin a most pleasing perfume, iii. 83. Some of the 

 weasel kind have a smell approaching to perfume, 94. 

 That of the musk or the civet is nothing to the odour of 

 the stinkards, 94-. In what manner taken from the pouch ; 

 more grateful perfume than musk ; that of Amsterdam the 

 purest of any ; is communicated to all parts of the animal's 

 body ; the fur impregnated, and the skin also ; a person 

 shut up with one of the skins in a close room, cannot sup- 

 port the scent ; this perfume sold in Holland for about fif- 

 teen shillings an ounce ; it has no analogy with the crea- 

 ture's appetite for generation ; a proof of it ; has its vicissi- 

 tudes of fashion, like dress, 103. 



Persia, the horses of that country the most beautiful and most 

 valuable of all in the East, ii. 192. There are studs of ten 

 thousand white mares together, with the hoof so hard that 

 shoeing is unnecessary, 187. The flesh of the wild ass so 

 much liked that its delicacy is a proverb there, 205. Two 

 kinds of asses there, and some of them worth forty or fifty 

 pounds, 211. A noted country for giving long soft hair to 

 the animals bred in it, 398. Lions found to diminish in 

 number in this country, 400. The bird of Persia is the 

 common cock of Aristophanes, iv. 129. 



Persian Gulf, a very dangerous wind prevails, by the natives 

 called the sameyel ; it suddenly kills those it involves in its 

 passage, and frequently assumes a visible form, darting in a 



