1 70 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



therein a beast as it were of fleshe and bone and bloud, 

 as it were a lyttle lambe without wolle, and men eate the 

 beaste and fruite also, and sure it seemeth very strange." 

 And in the "Journall of Frier Odoricus," which I 

 have incorporated in my edition of " The Voiage and 

 Trava3 r le of Syr John Maundeville, Knight," he says : 

 " I was informed also by certaine credible persons of 

 another miraculous thing, namely, that in a certaine 

 Kingdome of the sayd Can, wherein stand the moun- 

 tains called Kapsei (the Kingdomes name is Kalor) 

 there groweth great Gourds or Pompions, (pumpkins) 

 which being ripe, doe open at the tops, and within 

 them is found a little beast like unto a yong lambe." 



THE CHIMERA. 



Aldrovandus gives us the accompanying illustration 

 of a Chimaera, a fabulous Classical monster, said to pos- 



