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some sort the Camel : one of them is called by the Ethiopians, 

 the Nabis ; with a Neck like a Horse, and the Leg and Foot 

 like the Ox ; the Head resembles that of a Camel, and it is 

 marked with white Spots upon a red Ground, from which it 

 taketh the Name of Camelopardalis ; 1 and the first Time it 

 was seen at Rome was in the Games of the Circus given by 

 Ccesar the Dictator; since which Time it is sometimes seen, 

 being more remarkable for the Sight than for any wild Nature 

 that it hath ; on which Account some have given it the Name 

 of the Wild Sheep. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 Of the Chaus and Cephus. 



THE Chaus, 2 which the Gauls called Rhaphius, having 

 the Shape of a Wolf with Leopard's Spots, was shewed first 

 in the Plays exhibited by Pompey the Great. He also brought 

 out of Ethiopia the Animals named Cephi, 3 whose fore Feet 



animal which resembles the camel in name, that is, the camelopardalis, 

 and the struthiocamelus, or ostrich. Wern. Club. 



1 The giraffe was certainly well known to the ancients long before 

 the time of Julius Ca3sar, when, as Pliny says, it first appeared in Italy. 

 It occurs, though rarely, in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, and is mentioned 

 by Agatharchidas, a Greek writer, who flourished about 150 B.C. In his 

 description of the animal, Pliny appears to have taken the darker parts of 

 the skin as forming the ground colour, which is relieved by the lighter 

 tints. Wern. Club. 



3 Felts Lynx. LINN. The European Lynx. This animal is again 

 mentioned, Lib. viii. c. 22, where it is called the Lupus Cervarius, or 

 Stag- Wolf ; and Dr. Fischer supposes it also to be the lynx mentioned, 

 Lib. xi. ch. 46. It is probable that Pliny has confounded together this 

 and the Marsh- Lynx, FeUs Chaus, CUVIER. Wern. Club. 



3 Cercopithecus Ruber, of Authors. The Patas, or Nismas. ^Elian, 

 " Hist. Anim." xvii. 8, on the authority of Pythagoras, describes the 

 Cephi as inhabiting the country bordering on the Red Sea. They are 

 vsaid to have been called xJJwa/, that is, gardens, from the various colours 

 for which they are distinguished. The Patas being one of the most beau- 

 tiful of the monkey tribe, the author of the volume on monkeys in the 



