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cries like a child when taken ; its fat is of that nature 

 that when it once burns, neither water nor anything 

 else can quench it. There is a fish called the swim- 

 ming cow, which comes sometimes on land and fights 

 with other cows ; but when it stays any considerable 

 time out of water, its horns soften, and it is obliged 

 to return to the water to recover their hardness." 



" There is a sort of waterfowl about as big as a 

 crow in Tubut Island, called Lugan. They slip into 

 the mouths of whales, which swallow them alive, and 

 have their hearts eaten up by the bird, by which 

 means many of them are killed, and the bird found 

 alive in the carcase." 



In Linschotten we are told that "the crew of a 

 ship, sailing from Mozambique into India, found them- 

 selves, for a whole fortnight, instead of sailing forwards, 

 still going back, although against the wind ; until at 

 last the boatswain spied a great broad tail of a fish 

 that had winded itself round the head of the ship, 

 the body being under the keel, and the head of it 

 under the rudder, swimming in that manner, and 

 drawing the ship contrary to the wind and their right 

 course ; which they with much ado struck off with 

 staves, and then the ship went right again." 



"About here (the Moluscos) are serpents thirty 

 feet long, which eat a certain herb, then get upon 

 trees by the bank of the sea, or rivers, and vomit up 

 the herbs ; to which the fish gather and are intoxi- 



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