CURIOUS CREATURES. 55 



SATYRS. 



He also mentions and delineates a curious Ape 

 which closely resembles the classical Satyr : " Under 

 the Equinoctial^ toward 

 the East and South, there 

 is a kind of Ape called 

 jEgopithecus, an Ape like 

 a Goate. For there are 

 Apes like Beares, called 

 Arctopitheci, and some like 

 Lyons, called Leontopitheci, 

 and some like Dogs, called 

 Cynocephali, as is before 

 expressed; and many other 

 which have a mixt resem- 

 blance of other creatures 

 in their members. 



" Amongst the rest there is a beast called PAN ; who 

 in his head, face, horns, legs, and from the loynes 

 downward resembleth a Goat, but in his belly, breast, 

 and armes, an Ape : such a one was sent by the King 

 of Indians to Constantine, which, being shut up in a 

 cave or close place, by reason of the wildnesse thereof, 

 lived there but a season, and when it was dead and 

 bowelled, they pouldred it with spices, and carried it 

 to be scene at Constantinople : the which beast having 

 beene scene of the ancient Grecians, were so amazed 

 at the strangenesse thereof, that they received it for a 

 God, as they did a Satyre, and other strange beasts." 



I have said that Topsell has mixed the Ape and the 

 Satyr, inextricably but as his version has the charm of 

 description and anecdote, I give it with little curtailment. 



