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colour is somewhat black with black speckles therein. And 
this diversity is in all his body, and namely in the eyes, 
and also in the tail, and is full heavy in moving and foul 
of colour in his death, and what is in his body ‘is but of 
little flesh ; and hath little blood, but in the head, and in 
the end of the tail, where he hath little blood and also. 
in the heart, and in the veins that come therefrom; and 
also hath blood about the eyes, though it be right little. 
His most might and strength is against the kind of gos- 
hawks; for he draweth them, and they fly to him, and he 
taketh them wilfully to other beasts to be devoured. If 
his head and his. throat be set afire with oaken wood, it 
maketh both rain and thunder., In sickness he feigneth 
himself soft and mild, though he be cruel. And it is said, 
that the Chameleon liveth only by air, and the mole by 
earth, and the herring by water, and the cricket [sala- 
mander (Bartholomew) | by fire. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 21. 
Ir the Chameleon at any time see a serpent taking the 
air, and sunning himself under some green tree, he climbeth 
up into that tree, and settleth himself directly over the 
serpent, then out of his mouth he casteth a thread like a 
spider, at the,end whereof hangeth a drop of poison as 
bright as any pearl, which lighting upon the serpent 
killeth it immediately. The right claw of the fore-feet, 
bound to the left arm with the skin of his cheeks, is good 
against robberies and terrors of the night, and the right 
pap against all fears. If the left foot be scorched in a 
furnace with the herb Chameleon, and afterward putting a 
little ointment to it, and made into little pasties, so being 
carried about in a wooden box, it maketh the party to go 
invisible. Likewise the liver dissolveth amorous enchant- 
ments. The entrails and dung of this beast washed in the 
urine of an ape, and hung up at our enemies’ gates, 
causeth reconciliation. With the tail they bring serpents 
asleep, and stay the flowing of the floods and waters; the 
same mingled with cedar and myrrh, bound to two rods 
of palm, and struck upon water, causeth all things that 
are contained in the same water to appear. 
Topsell, “ History of Serpents,” pp. 675-6. 
