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were properly the conquerors of China ; march two or three days 

 without stopping ; continue five or six, without eating more than a 

 handful of grass at every eight hours ; and remain without drink- 

 ing four and twenty hours ; lose all their strength when brought 

 into China or the indies : thrive pretty well in Persia and Turkey ; 

 the Tartars towards the north have a breed of little horses which 

 they set such a value upon that it is forbidden to sell them to 

 strangers ; ancient opinions on the nature and qualities of the horses 

 of Thessaly, Achaia, Ethiopia, Arabia, Africa, Italy, and particu- 

 larly of Apulia ; of Sicily, Cappadocia, Syria, Armenia, Media, 

 Persia ; of Sardinia, and Corsica , of Spain, W:\llachia, Transylvania ; 

 of Denmark, Scandinavia, Flanders ; of the Gaulish hurses ; of tho 

 German, Swiss, Hungarian, and lastly, of the English horses, 221 ; 

 Danish horses of such excellent size and strong make, that they are 

 preferred to all others for draught; some streaked like the tiger, 

 or mottled like the leopard ; Gcriuaimud Ilutigaritiu horses; Dutch 

 horses are good for draught, the best come from the province of 

 Friezland ; the Fiunders horses, 219 ; few Fr< nrlt horses good ; in 

 general are heavy shouldered ; the best of that country cuaie from 

 Limosin, and Normandy furnishes the next ; Jlnwnrun tame horses 

 admirable ; method of hunting with them, ib. ; islands of the Archi- 

 pelago have very good horses ; those of Crete were in great re- 

 putation among the ancients, at present seldom used in tiie coun- 

 try itself, because of the unevemiess of the ground ; the original 

 horses of Morocco, smaller than the Arabian breed ; in Turkey 

 there are horses of all races; Persian horses, in general, the most 

 beautiful and most valuable of all the East, ib. ; some greatly esteem- 

 ed in the Ukraine, in Wallachia, Poland, Sweden, 220; English 

 horses excel the Arabians in size and swiftness; are more durable 

 ihan the barb, and more hardy than the Peisian ; one instance of 

 their great rapidity, in the admirable Childers, frequently known to 

 move eighty-two feet and a half in a second, 221 , fau'.t of our man- 

 ner of breaking horses ; the French-managed horse never falls be- 

 fore, but more usually on one side ; the English are lor speed and 

 despatch, the French and other nations are more for parade and 

 spirit ; English hunters considered the noblest and most useful 

 horses in the world, 222 : Iti-ger de Delegme, the hrst recorded to 

 have attempted mending our native breed ; number of horses in 

 London in the reign of King Stephen, said to have amounted to 

 t.ventv thousand ; in the times of Queen Elizabeth, the kingdom 

 could not supply two thousand horses to fori:: the cavalry ; Powis- 

 iand. in \\aies, for many ages famous for a swifl and generous race 

 of horses, and why, 222 ; perfections which a horse ought to have, 

 according to Carnerarius, ib. ; a ruminating animal, 252 ; in a course 

 of years impoverish tho ground, 233; the horse and the ass differ 

 not so much in form as the cow and the bison, yet the former are dis- 

 tinct animals, and the latter animals of the same kind, 235 ; eats two 

 hundred and sixtv-two plants, and rejects two hundred and twelve, 

 280 ; famished horses more hairy than those fed plentifully, 

 331 ; for hunting lions, must be of that sort called charossi ; all 

 others fly at the sijrlit of the lion, 296; are killed by wild asses, 

 225 ; destroyed by the American bat called vampyre, in South 

 America, 385. 



Hume (*>'/.) described, C44. 



Hortcnsius, the orator, the first who had peacocks served up at 

 an entertainment in Rome, 4U7. 



llafjiitals erected in India for the maintenance of all kinds of 

 vermin, 181 ; for monkeys, erected by the Bramins, 410. 



llutlrnliitf outstrip lions in the chase, as travellers report, 150 ; 

 make much and very extraordinary use of the bison, 237. 



Hiiuntl, hurrir.r, and Italic,, all of the same kind; proj matin 

 limind. transported to the North, becomes a great Danish dog, and 

 this sent into the South, becomes a greyhound of different sizes ; 

 the same transported into Ireland, the Ukraine, Tartary, Epirus, 

 and Albania, becomes the great wolf dog known by the namo of the 

 Irish teolf-dog ; the ulooil-huund, a dog of the generous kind; and 

 likewise the jftize-hoiind, and the gre\jlivuntt ; ail used for hunting ; 

 the blood-hound a dog of groat use and in high esteem among our 

 ancestors ; formerly employed in hunting thieves and robbers, 

 whom they traced by their footsteps; the gaze-hound hunted, like 

 our greyhound, by the eye, not by the scent; the greyhound 

 formerly held in such estimation that it was the peculiar 

 companion of a gentleman ; by some game-laws, persons under a 

 certain rank in life are forbid from keeping this animal, 311, 312. 

 Greyhound fox, the largest, tallest, and boldest of the kind, 325. 



Howlet, a kind of owl without horns, 489. 



Hudson's Bay, above twelve thousand martins' skins annually 

 imported from thence into England, 336. 



Huers, name given to the men employed to give signals where to 

 wxtend the nets in the pilchard-fishery, 655. 



Hughes. See Polypus, 837. 



Hull had the honour of first attempting that profitable branch of 

 trade, the whale-fishery, 620. 



lluinl/ir, a new island formed at the mouth of this river ; it is 

 about nine miles in circumference, and worth to the proprietor 

 about eight hundred pounds a year, 30. 



Humming-bird is the smallest of birds, and seems nearly allied 

 to the insect, 251) ; belongs to the sparrow-kind, 5:>? ; found in great 

 numbers, during the summer season, in America ; the smallest of 

 them about the size of a hazel-nut; its description; the larger 

 humming-bird is near half as big as the common wren ; its descrip- 

 tion ; are seen fluttering about the nW ITS. without ever lighting 

 upon them ; their wings in such rapid motion, it is impossible to 

 discern their colours, except by their glittering : 1/ut only 'extract- 

 ing the honey as with a kiss ; their nests and the number of e 

 tiicir time of incubation; instance of their docility; countries 

 ! where found; in the Leeward Islands, they continue in a torpid 

 state during the severity of winter ; Lahat asserts, thit besides tho 

 humming noise produced by the wings, they have a pleasing melan- 

 choly melody in their voices, small and proportioned to their or- 

 gans ; the Indians make use of this pretty bird's plumage ; in what 

 manner the children take them; when taken, they are instantly 

 killed, and hung up in the chimney to dry ; some dry them in. 

 stoves ; at present this bird is taken rather for selling as a curiosity 

 to Europeans than an ornament for themselves, 54S to 5f>0. 



Jliini/i. of the bison of different sizes, weighing from forty to fifty 

 pound . sometimes less ; cuts and tastes like a dressed udder; in a 

 few generations it wears away, 237, 238. 



fliinvir, every .inimal endures the wants of sleep and hunger 

 v. itii less injury to health than man ; hunger kills man sooner than 

 watchfulness ; more dreadful in its approaches than continuance ; so 

 terrible to man, that rather than endure its tortures he exchanges 

 them for immediate destruction ; dreadful effects of hunger related 

 to the author by the captain of a ship, who was one of six that eu- 

 dured it in its extremities ; different opinions concerning the cause 

 of hunger; few instances of men dying, except at sea, of absolute 

 hunger ; those men whose disorder is caused by hunger ; the num- 

 ber of such as die in London of hunger supposed not less than 

 two thousand in a year ; method of palliating hunger among the 

 American Indians, 153, 154 ; instances of amazing patience in 

 hunger, 179. 



Hunters, the English considered tiie noblest and most useful 

 horses in the world, 227 ; terms used by hunters in pursuing the 

 stag; names invented by them for the stag, 262; for the fallow- 

 deer, 266. 



Hunting, the natural rights of hunting nirde royal, and v, hen, 

 2C1 ; the stag and the buck performed in the same manner in Eng- 

 land, and how, 262 ; ancient manner of hunting the stag. 204 ; the 

 manner in Sicily, and in China, ib. ; the wolf. 321 ; wolves used in 

 hunting, 322; hunting of the fox, 323; hunting tiie sable chiefly 

 the lot of the exiles in Siberia, 336; of the ouran-outang, or wild 

 man in Borneo, a favourite amusement of the king. 402 ; of the 

 elephant at the Cape of Good Hope, 423 ; the method used to lake 

 it alive, 421 ; manner of hunting, the ostrich by the Arabians, and 

 by the Struthophagi, 465 ; manner of hunting the turkey, 499. 



Hurco (.dnjiilius,) charged by Pliny with being the first who fut- 

 ted peacocks for the feasts of the luxurious, 4!>7. 



Hurricane, the cloud preceding a hurricane, called by sailors 

 bull's eye, described ; houses made of timber, bend to the blast of 

 the hurricane like osiers, and recover their rectitude ; hurricanes 

 offensive to the sense of smelling ; maggots brought with them, 

 105 ; common in all tropical climates ; on the coasts of Guinea fre- 

 quently three or four in a day ; their seasons upon those coasts, at 

 Loango and the opposite coast of Africa ; the hurricane called tor- 

 nado ; its dreadful effects, 106. 



Has, in Greek signifies a sow, and kuoina derived from it, 327. 



Huso, the isingluss fish, caught in great quantities in the Danube, 

 from October to January; furnishes the commodity called isinglass; 

 method of making it; often above four hundred pounds wtighk; its 

 flesh suited is better tasted, and turns red like salmon, 6-12. 



Hija'iio, no words give an idea adequate to thia animal's 

 figure, deformity, and fierceness ; more savage and unt-iiae- 

 able than any quadruped ; for ever in a state of rage or rapacity ; 

 its description ; for its size, the most terrible of all quadrupeds : de- 

 fends itself against the lion, is a match for the panther, and attacks 

 the ounce, which it seldom fails to conquer ; an obscene and soli- 

 tary animal ; its first howl sometimes mistaken for the voice of a 

 man mourning ; its latter like the violent efforts of retching ; 

 whence it first took its name ; native of the torrid zone ;. resides m 

 the caverns of mountains, the clefts of rocks, or dens it has formed 

 under earth ; taken ever so young, it never can be tamed ; some- 

 times attacks man, and carries off cattle : its eyes shine by night, 



