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couered themfelues vp againe. That kinde of them which is called 

 Tfarus or Saris ^ is of like proportion to this which I haue already 

 defcribed, and is not much bigger than the tame Goate. His na- 

 ture and properties are (in maner) all one with the wilde Goate. 

 Sometimes he would fkrat his thyghes with his foote, and thru- 

 fteth his hoofes in fo farre,that he cannot draw them backe againe, 

 but falleth and breaketh his necke, for his hoofes of his feete are 

 crooked, and he thrufteth them farre into the fkinne, and then they 

 will not come out agayne. When they come from their feede,they 

 go to the rockes and lie vpon the hardeft places that they can finde. 

 The Gawle both of this forte and that other, is very good for fi- 

 ne wes that be fhrunke vp, when they are great and old, they are but 

 too too fat venyfon, efpecially within the bodie. The Geates haue 

 homes like the Goates in all refpedes, but not fo great : bothe 

 fortes of them haue their feason and greace time, like vnto the Hart 

 goyng to Rut at Alhallantide : then you may hunte them vntill 

 theyr Rutting time come, for in winter they are very leane, fee- 

 ding vpon nothing but Pynes and Fyrretrees, or fuch other woodes 

 as are alwayes greene, howe little nouriture foeuer they yeelde. 

 Their leather is warme when it is curried in feafon, for neyther 

 cold nor rayne will pearce it, if the hearie fide be outwards : their 

 fleflie is not very holefome, but breedeth the feuer through the a- 

 bundant heate that is in it : neuerthelefTe when they are in feafon, 

 the venifon of them is reafonable delicate to eate. 



How to hunte the wilde Goates. Chap. 48 



THe beft time to hunt the wilde Goate, is at Alhallontide,and 

 the huntefman mufte lie by night in the high mountaynesin 

 fome fhepeheardes cabane, or fuch cottage : and it were good that 

 helay fo feuen or eight dayes before he meane to hunte, to fee the ad- 

 uantages of the coaftes,the Rockes, and places where the goates do 

 lie, andallfuch other circumftances: and let him fetnettes and toyles, 

 or foreftallings, towards the riuers and bottomcs, euen as he would 

 do for an Harte : for he may not looke y* his houndes will folow y® 

 Goate downe euery place of y ® mountaines, if he haue not hewers 



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