SriTZBERGKX AX]) GREENLAND. 93 



3. Of the Lesser Garnels or Shrimj^s.^ 



I have also taken notice, in my voyage to Spitzbergcn, of a 

 sort of shrimps that are like worms ; the head thereof is like 

 the head of a fly ; it hath on the foremost part of its head 

 two horns standing out ; it hath scales like the Jwg-louse; its 

 back is round, and broad downwards ; it hath twelve legs ; 

 on each side of the foremost scale it hath three legs ; after 

 you have told four scales more, there is on each side three 

 legs more ; they are no bigger than I have drawn them : the 

 birds eat them as their best food, being always in great num- 

 bers where these worms were. I found great plenty of them 

 in the Danish Harbour, between and underneath the stones 

 in the water ; afterwards, on the eighth of July, I found 

 them in the Mussel Haven. I have also found them in the 

 seed of the whales that swam upon the water. 



4. Of the Louse of the Whale.^ 



The lohale's louse hath no resemblance at all to our lice, 

 except in the head, and therefore it belongs rather to the 

 crustaceous animals : their scales are as hard as those of the 

 prawns ; they have a head like a louse, with four horns ; the 

 two short horns that stand out before have two knobs, like 

 kettle drumsticks ; the two other bended horns are sharp 

 before. Its head hath almost the shape of an acorn ; is cut 

 very deep behind. It hath two eyes, and biit one nostril. 

 The neck is not made of stifi" scales, but its skin is like that 

 between two scales or plates of a lobster. It hath six plates 

 on the back ; the foremost of them is shaped like a weaver's 

 shuttle. The tail might be compared unto a shield, but it is 

 very short. On the foremost plate it hath feet shaped like a 

 scythe ; they are round before and bent, like the first quar- 

 ter of the moon ; but on the inside they are toothed like a 



^ Probably the Anoiiijx Amindlu, figured in Phi[)iis. ^ Ct/amus ceti. 



