310 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



" There be also certaine little dragons called in Arabia, 

 Vcsga, and in Catalonia, Dragons of houses; these, when 

 they bite, leave their teeth behind them, so as the wound 

 never ceaseth swelling, as long as the teeth remain 

 therein, and therefore, for the better cure thereof, the 

 teeth are drawne forth, and so the wound will soone be 

 healed. 



"And thus much for the hatred betwixt men and 

 dragons, now we will proceede to other creatures. 



" The greatest discord is between the Eagle and the 

 Dragon, for the Vultures, Eagles, Swannes and Dragons, 

 are enemies to one another. The Eagles, when they 

 shake their winges, make the dragons afraide with their 

 ratling noyse ; then the dragon hideth himselfe within 

 his den, so that he never fighteth but in the ayre, eyther 

 when the Eagle hath taken away his young ones, and he, 

 to recover them, flieth aloft after her, or else when the 

 Eagle meeteth him in her nest, destroying her egges and 

 young ones : for the Eagle devoureth the dragons, and 

 little Serpents upon earth, and the dragons againe, and 

 Serpents do the like against the Eagles in the ayre. 

 Yea, many times the dragon attempteth to take away the 

 prey out of the Eagle's talants, both on the ground, and 

 in the ayre, so that there ariseth betwixt them a very 

 hard and dangerous fight. 



" In the next place we are to consider the enmitie 

 that is betwixt Dragons and Elephants, for, so great 

 is their hatred one to another, that in Ethyopia the 

 greatest dragons have no other name but Elephant killers. 

 Among the Indians, also, the same hatred remaineth, 

 against whom the dragons have many subtile inventions : 

 for, besides the greate length of their bodies, where- 

 withall they claspe and begirt the body of the Elephant, 



