OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 897 



In this year (Schmied. vit. G. p. xxxvii), Gesner writing to Theodorus Zwingger, receiving 

 plants from Cortusi, and preparing drawings for his botanical work, including "gentians species 

 rara" tab. fig. i Swertia perennis, "anonymos" i. fig. cxvii Lobelia Dortmanna, ''glaux a quibusdam 

 dicta" i. fig. 8 Dorycnium Monspeliense, "alga marina" i. fig. 147 Ruppia 7naritima, " anemone 

 montana " i. fig. 18 A. alpina, Colchicum fasciculare i. fig. cxci. — He died " Dec. 13th, 1565." 



"1565, March 1st" (Sieb. elucid. Vries p. 98), letter of the Jesuit Aloisius Froes from Meaco 

 in Japan, describing an extensive region three hundred leagues distant inhabited by "sylvestrium 

 hominum" (Ainos), having the whole body hairy and a great beard and moustaches which they lift 

 with a stick when about to drink ; are bold in war and much feared by the Japanese, and when 

 wounded wash the part in salt water, which is their only remedy ; have no "sacra" religious cere- 

 monies, only that they are accustomed to venerate heaven. — In Ortelius's theat-rum orbis published 

 in " 1570," the island North of Japan is termed " Satyrorum Insulam.'' 



"September" (Hakl., and Holmes), arrival at Fort Caroline of Pedro Melendez, with full power 

 from Philip II. of Spain "To drive the Huguenots out of Florida, and settle it with good Catholics." 

 The French were massacred, Laudonniere and a few others escaping in a boat : and three forts were 

 built on the river of May, and strongly garrisoned with Spanish soldiers. 



" 1566 A. D." (art de verif ), Suliman II. succeeded by Selim II., thirteenth Turkish sultan. 

 & Who wrested Cyprus from the Venetians before the close of the year (Alst. p. 308) ; also, Tunis and 

 Guleta in Barbary from the Spaniards, and Wallachia from the Hungarians. 



"August" (Alst.), throughout almost all the cities of Belgium, the images removed from the 

 churches and demolished : initiating open war against Philip II. of Spain. 

 "The same year" (Alst.), end of the chronicle of Gilbertus Genebrardus. 



"The same year" (addit. art de verif), a red stone called "llimpi," used by a Peruvian to paint 

 his face before going to war, procured by Henrique Garces, a Portuguese. This led to the discovery 

 of the quicksilver mines of Huancavelica. 



" In this year" (Schmied. ed. G. i. 57), Wolph, assisted by Thomas Penneius of London, com- 

 mencing the publication of the botanical work of Gesner. 



"1567 A. D. = ' loung-king,' 1st year of" Mou-tsoung or " Mou-tsoung-tchouang-ti, of the 

 Ming" or Twenty-third dynasty (Chinese chron. table). He modified the ancient law, Prohibiting 

 a magistrate from acting in his own province ; and granted some exceptions in favour of mandarins 

 of the Second order (Pauth. p. 408). 



"July 24th" (Nicol. p. 382), queen Mary of Scotland deposed; and the accession other son 

 James VI. 



One hundred and seventy-sixth generation. Sept. 1st, 1567, onward mostly beyond youth: the 

 Jewish writer As. de Rossi : the Arab writers, Shems-eddin Basrawi, Abdalcader : the Greek writers 

 Emmanuel Gluzonius d. 1596, Maximus Margounius d. about 1601 : Beza, Petrus Canisius, John 

 ' Knox, Radzivil, Josephus Scaliger; Robertus Stephanus, Michael Neander, Frideric Sylburg ; 

 J. Genesius; Paul Manutius ; Castelvetro ; Frederick Commandin ; Hieronymus Wolfius ; Ronsard ; 

 George Buchanan ; Peter Ramus ; Osorius ; James Cujas ; Ciaconius ; Pancirolus ; Carolus Sigonius ; 

 Henry Stephens ; Bodinus; Montague; Francis Hotomanus ; Riccoboni ; Peter Pithou; Philip Sid- 

 ney ; Melvill James : the poets, Camoens, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser : the Slavonic 

 writers, Truber, and A. Bohorizh : the painters, Paul Veronese d. 1588, Giacomo Robusti called Tin- 

 toretto d. 1594: the architect Palladio: the musician Orlandus de Lasso. 



" 1567-8 A. D. (= A. H. 975," Blochmann and W. W. Hunter), Muslim conquest of Orissa, by 

 Afghans from Berar and Bengal. Mukund Deva, the last independent king was slain in battle before 

 Jajpur; and the sacred city of Puri, including the temple of Jagannath, was captured and plundered 

 by Kala Pahar. ' 



" 1568, Feb. 23d (= 25th Shaban A. H. 975 " of Abul Fazl, Orient, transl. lond.), the fortress of 

 Chaitur in' the Rajput country captured by Akbar, emperor of Northern Hindustan. Matchlocks, 

 artillery mining with gunpowder, and war elephants were employed in the reduction. 



In this year (= " nth year of Ookimatz," art de verif.), the title "dai-seogun" conferred by 

 Ookimatz on Josijtira, son of Jositir. 



"The same year" (Blair), defeat at Glasgow of the army of the ex-queen Mary of Scotland; and 

 her withdrawal into England. 



"In this'year" (Winckler), after his Cruydeboeck "in 1563," Frument. Hist, "in 1566, Dodo- 

 nsus or Dodoens publishing his Coronar. Hist, enumerating Hieracium timbellatum, Campanula 

 rapunculoides, and Chenopodina maritima* ^ ^ _ 



* Celosia coccinea of Tropical America. An annual, transported to Europe, termed "arnaran- 

 thiis purpureus" by Dodoens 185 -«tC. Bauhin, and Willd.) ; described also by Linnaeus. West- 

 ward, " C. purpurea" of A. Saint-Hilaire, observed in Brazil; is regarded by Steudel as probably 

 identical. 113 



