n 4 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



" It is well enough known that Bears, Dolphins, Stags, 

 Sheep, Calves and Lambs, are much delighted with 

 Musick : and, again, they are to be driven from their 

 Heards by some harsh sounding Pipes, or Horns, that 

 when they hear the sound they will be gone into the 

 Woods, a great way off. Now the Shepheards of the 

 Cattel know this well enough : they will play upon their 

 two horned Pipes continually, which sometimes are taken 

 away by Bears, until such time as the Bear is forced by 

 Hunger to go away to get his food. Wherefore they 



take a Goat's Horn, and sometimes a Cow's Horn, and 

 make such a horrid noise, that they scare the wild beasts, 

 and so return safe to their dispersed flocks. This two 

 horned Pipe, which in their tongue they call Seec-Pipe, 

 they carry to the fields with them, for they have learned 

 by use, that their Flocks and Heards will feed the better 

 and closer together. 



" The Russians and Lithuanians are more near to the 

 Swedes and Goths on the Eastern parts : and these hold 

 it a singular delight, to have always the most cruel 



