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A M E KIT A. 



Lib. 2. cap. 17. 

 Strange Hunting. 





Chap. II; 

 and a Bcaft. The great Qbam, as <Paulus Venetus an Eye-witnefs attefts, Rides on 

 Hunting, attended in couples with tame Leopards. The King oiCamboja in like 

 manner is ferv'd with Panthers : Scatter adds alio, That they went not unpro- 

 vided of a Lamb or Goat, to give the Panther , left falling into his natural fe, 

 tocity, provok'd by hunger, he mould make the Huntfmen his Quarry, if he 

 had no other Prey. But notwithftarvding fome wilde Beafts feem to forget 

 their Voracious Nature, yet there ought great care to be taken in the Trans- 

 porting of them, becaufe they oftentimes grow wild again , which France can 

 strange ^nt of two wit nefs, where two Leopards , a Male and a Female being tam'd , prefently 

 after the death of King Francis, whether negligently or on purpofe, let loofe, 

 ran into the Woods , and near Orleans devour'd a great number of People, and 

 Cattel : Gefner faith, That fome Womens bodies were found, who were un- 

 touch'd, onely their Breafts eaten by the Leopards, as if they took them for 

 the daintieft part; which is not unlike the antient>m, who according to Saint 

 Hierom, entertain'd their Guefts as a moft delicious Difli , with Womens 

 Breafts, and Mens Buttocks Roafted. Befides, the devouring nature of thefe 

 Wilde Beafts, what profit could Tygers, Lions, Wolves, Bears, and the like 

 advantage the Tranfporter ? And how came Serpents, Adders, and other Re- 

 ptiles, thither over the Ocean, that with no Art whatfoever can be made 

 tame ? Were the fmall VefTels juft laden with fuch terrible Creatures, when 

 againft their wills, they were by Storm driven on a new Coaft ? By thefe im- 

 poffibilities we may cafily judge, ,that the Americans came thither by Land, 

 and no other way, but how, and upon what occafion muft be our next 

 enquiry. 



Sect. II. 



Adv. Jtvin. !• 2. 



Two reafons wherefore 

 the people removi from 

 their Countreys. 



\ ^ J-Jlftories generally gives us onely two accounts, Why People remov'd 

 from one Countrey to another, either not, or thinly inhabited . whe= 

 ther driven by force, or of their own accord, fo to unburthen and give'eafe to 

 their too Plethorick Countreys. 



Thus the banifli'd Japanners forfook their Native Countrey, and fetled them, 

 felves in a defolate Soyl, fince a flourifhing Empire, mining with Riches, and 

 Crown'd with ftately Cities: So the Zatavians took pofleffion of the uninhabi- 

 ted Ifle, lying between the <%byne, and the Wael , being driven out of Hef„ by 

 Civil-Wars , and preferv'd the memory of the place, from whence they had 

 their Original on the utmoft Point of the Ifland , in the Villages of Cattenwyck- 

 for the Hejfens formerly went by the name of Cam • others that remov'd did 

 not onely fall upon their Neighbors, but made a way by force of Arms, cho- 

 iing their Habitations under a temperate Climate , and in a fruitful Soyl. Af- 

 ter which manner the Franks enter'd Gaul, and afterwards the Hermans fet upon 

 France . fo that the Conquer'd Countreys, have ever fince from the Conque- 

 rors been call'd France and Normandy : But although it cannot punctually be 

 faid, how the Inhabitants of America remov'd , yet it is without contradiaion 

 b y*:2Zl£Z U ^ tha£ the y firft found an <mpty Countrey. The Opinions which they have 

 H«.^b« tmytei0% . themfelves concerning it, are full of idle Fancies . Firft, they oueftmn their 

 Original from the Floud, which is fo well rooted in the memory of all Nati- 

 ons, that the blindeft and moft ignorant know fomething of it, though de- 

 formedly alter'd and vary'd , tack'd up with additional fabulous Stories, the 

 truth it felf known onely to us, but to all others loft in Oblivion, 



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