INDEX. 361 



Serval, a native of Malabar, resembling the panther in its 

 spots, ii. 435. 



Setter, a dog of the generous kind, iii. 17. 



Severn, lamprey of this river the most delicate of all fish, v. 

 92. 



Shagreen made of the skin of the wild ass, ii. 205. The skin 

 of the shark, by great labour, polished into the substance 

 called shagreen, v. 74. 



Shammoy, a kind of goat, in the mountainous parts of Ger- 

 many, &c. : its description : keep in flocks from four to a 

 hundred : time of coupling : live twenty or thirty years : 

 their flesh good to eat ; the suet ten or twelve pounds : this 

 animal has a feeble bleat, to call its young; in case of dan- 

 ger its hissing noise is heard at a great distance : by smell, 

 discovers a man at half a league : feeds upon the best her- 

 bage, and delicate parts of plants and aromatic herbs : ad- 

 mired for the beauty of its eyes : not found in summer, ex- 

 cept in caverns of rocks, amidst fragments of ice, or under 

 shades of spreading trees : in winter, it sleeps in the thicker 

 forests, and feeds upon shrubs and buds of pine-trees, and 

 scratches up the snow for herbage : manner of hunting it : 

 dogs useless in the chase : skin of the shammoy, when tan- 

 ned, liked for softness and warmth : the leather now called 

 shammoy, made from the tame goat, sheep, and deer : 

 medicinal virtues said to reside in the blood, fat, gall, and 

 the concretion found in the stomach, and called the Ger- 

 man bezoar, ii. 275. 



Shank, the Red, and the Green Shank, varieties of the crane 

 kind : their dimensions, iv. 340. 



Shark, description of the great white shark : the mouth enor- 

 mously wide : capable of swallowing a man : great number 

 of teeth, v. 67. No fish swims so fast : outstrips the swift- 

 est ships : obliged to turn on one side (not on the back) to 

 seize the prey : instances of frightful rapacity in this fish : 

 its enmity to man : many negroes are seized and devoured 

 by them : loves the black men's flesh better than the white : 

 usual method of sailors to take them : no animal harder to 

 kill : when cut in pieces, the muscles preserve motion, and 

 vibrate when separated from the body : how killed by the 

 African negroes : the remora, or sucking-fish, sticks to it : 

 for what purpose : for resemblance to the whale ranked 

 among cetaceous fishes : brings forth living young : Ronde- 

 letius says the female of the blue shark lets her brood, 

 when in danger, swim down her throat, and shelter in her 

 belly : in Mr Pennant's opinion, the female larger than the 

 male, 68, &c. 



Sheat-fish, the silurus, of the prickly-finned abdominal kind ; 

 its description, v. 122. 



