BOOK VIII. XXX. 72-75 



cross betvveen a dog and a wolf, that break every- 

 thing with their teeth, swallow it at a gulp and 

 masticate it in the belly ; tailed monkeys with black 

 heads, ass's hair and a voice unhke that of any other 

 species of ape ; Indian oxen " with one and with three 

 horns; the leticrocota,^ swiftest of wild beasts, about 

 the size of an ass, with a stag's haunches, a hon's 

 neck, tail and breast, badger's head, cloven hoof, 

 mouth opening right back to the ears, and ridges of 

 bone in place of rows of teeth — this animal is 

 reported to imitate the voices of human beings. 

 Among the same people is also found the animal 

 called the yale,<^ the size of a hippopotamus, with an 

 elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the 

 jaws of a boar and rnovable horns more than a cubit 

 in length which in a fight are erected alternately, 

 and presented to the attack or sloped backward in 

 turn as policy directs. But its fiercest animals are 

 forest bulls, larger than the bulls of the field, sur- 

 passing all in speed, of a tawny colour, with blue 

 eyes, hair turned backward, mouth gaping open to 

 tihe ears, along with mobile horns <^ ; the hide has the 

 hardness of flint, rejecting every vvound. They 

 hunt all wild animals, but themselves can only be 

 caught in pits, and when caught always die game. 

 Ctesias vvTites that in the same country '' is born the 

 creature that he calls the manfichora/ vvhich has a 

 triple rovv of teeth meeting like the teeth of a comb. 

 the face and ears of a human being, grey eyes, a 

 blood-red colour, a lion's body, inflicting stings vvith 

 its tail in the manner of a scorpion, with a voice like 



* Perhaps the text shoiild be altered to give ' next in the 

 Indians' country.' 

 i Fabulous. 



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