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cries like a child when taken ; its fat is of that nature 
that when it once burns, neither water nor anything 
else can quench it. There is a fish called the swim- 
ming cow, which comes sometimes on land and fights 
with other cows; but when it stays any considerable 
time out of water, its horns soften, and it is obliged 
to return to the water to recover their hardness.” 
“There is a sort of waterfowl about as big as a 
crow in Tubut Island, called Lugan. They slip into 
the mouths of whales, which swallow them alive, and 
have their hearts eaten up by the bird, by which 
means many of them are killed, and the bird found 
alive in the carcase.” 
In Linschotten we are told that “the crew of a 
ship,-sailing from Mozambique into India, found them- — 
selves, for a whole fortnight, instead of sailing forwards, 
still going back, although against the wind ; until at 
last the boatswain spied a great broad tail of a fish 
that had winded itself round the head of the ship, 
the body being under the keel, and the head of it 
under the rudder, swimming in that manner, and 
drawing the ship contrary to the wind and their right 
course; which they with much ado struck off with 
staves, and then the ship went right again.” 
“About here (the Moluscos) are serpents thirty 
feet long, which eat a certain herb, then get upon 
trees by the bank of the sea, or rivers, and vomit up 
the herbs; to which the fish gather and are intoxi- 
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