The eighth Booke of 



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ChAp. SXI. 



^ of LpcesorOnceSidndMarmozets or Apes ^ called Sphinges : of Crocutes^ 

 Monkiesj Indif) boeufes^ Leococrutes^ Hale : Mthioptan bulks ^ the 

 Mmtichore^ And Lycorms : of the ferments called Ca- 

 toblepeSywdtheBafihske 



Ncesarccommonjfo arc Marmcjzcts, with a brownc duskifh haircjbaving dugs in their 

 breaft. ^Ethiopia breedeth tlienijlike as many other monftrous bcafts: to witjhorfcs with 

 wingSjand armed with homes, which they call Pegafi. Alfo the Crocutes [a kind of ma- 

 ftivc doggcs] cngcndred bctwen a dog and a wolfe ; thefe are able to craCh with theJr teeth what- H 

 Ibever they can come by, and a thing is no fooner downc their fwallow and got into their fto- 

 Jdtfrcophheci. mackc^but prefently they digell itiMoreovcr^thc ^ Monkies with blacke heads, otherwifehaired 

 like Aflesj differing from other Apes in their eric. The Indians have certaine boeiifes with one 

 hornjand others with three. Alfo theLeocrocutaja moft fwiftbeaft^as big almoft as an hee-alTe, 

 legged like an Hart^with a neck^taile^and brcaft of a Lion, headed like thefe g rayes or badgers^ 

 with a cloven foot in twaine : the flit of his mouth reacheth to his cares : in ftead of teeth ,an en- 

 tire wholbonc.Thcy report,that this bcaftcoiinierfeiteth a mans voice.Thcy have among them 

 bcfides all thelcjanocher beaft named Eale/or bignefic equal to the river-horfcjtailed like to an 

 Elephantjeither blacke or reddifh tawnie of colour : his mandibles or chawcs relemble thofe of 

 a bore : he hath homes above a cubit long, which he can ftirre or moovc as hee lift 5 for being in I 

 fight, hee canfet them both or one of them as hee will himfelfe, altering them every way ; one 

 while ftreight forward to offend, other whiles bending byas,as he hath rcafon to nort or pu{h,to 

 ward or avoid his enemie. But the moft fell and cr uell ot all others in that countrey, be the wild 

 bulls of the forreft, greater than our common field bulks : moft fwift, of colour brcnded, their 

 eyes gray orblewiih;iheirhairegrowingcontraric,their mouth wide and reaching to their ears: 

 their homes Iikewife hard byjmooveable^their hide as hard as a flint , checking the dent of 

 any weapon whatfoevcr,and cannot be pierced: all other wild beafts they chafe and hunt 5 them- 

 lelves cannot be taken but in pit-fals : in this their wildneiTe and rage they die,and never become 

 umed.Ctefiiis writeth,that in ^Ethiopia Iikewife there is a beaft which he calleth Mantichora jha- 

 ving three rankes of teeth, which when they meet togither are let in one within another like K 

 the teeth of combes? with the face andearesof aman^with redeyes; of colour fanguine,bodicd 

 like a lyon, and having a taile armed with a fting likea fcorpion : his voice refembleth the noife 

 of a flute and trumpet founded together : very fwift he is, and mans flefh of all others hee mof^ 

 defireth. In India, there be found boeufes whole hoofed, with fingle homes : alfo a wild beaft 

 *hinl-^a Musk "^"^^^ ^ Axis,with a skin like a fawn or hind-calfe 5 howbeit marked with more fpots, and thofe 

 ^at, ' whiter.This beaft is confecrated to Bacchmy and under his protedion.The Orfians of India hunt 

 Apes,and take a number of them,white all over .But the moft fell and furious beaft of all other, 

 is the Licorne or Monoceros : his bodie refembleth an horfe, his head a ftaggc, his feet an Eie- . 

 phant,his taile a bore ; he loweth after an hideous manner,one blacke horn he hath in the mids 

 of his forehead,b earing out two cubits in length : by report, this wild beaft cannot poffibly be 

 caught alive. Among the Hefperian^thyopians, thereisa fountaine named Nigris, the head 

 (as many have thought) ofthe river Nilus, and good reafbns there be to carrie it,which we have 

 alleadged before : neerc to which fpring, there kcepeth a wild beaft called Catoblepes, litde of 

 bodie otherwife, heavie alfo and flow in all his limmes befidesjbut his head onely is ib great that 

 his bodie is hardly able to beare it j hee alwaies carrieth it downe toward the earth, for if hee did 

 not fojhe were able to kill all mankind: for there is not one that looketh upon his eyes, but hee 

 dyethprefently.The like propertie hath the ferpent called aBafiliske :breditisinthe province 

 Cyrenaica, and is not above twelve fingers-breadth long : a white fpot like a ftarrc it carrieth oa' 

 the head, and fetteth it out like a coronet or diademe : if he but hiffe once,no other ferpcnts dare 

 come ncerc ;he creepeih not winding and crawling byas as other ferpents doc, with one part of M 

 the bodie driving the other forward, but goeth upright and aloft from the ground with the one 

 balfc part of his bodie; he killeth all trees and fhrubs not only that he touchcth,but that he doth 

 breath upon alfo : as for graffeand hearbs, thofe hee findgeth and burneth up, yea and breakcth 

 ftoncs in funder: fo vcnimous and deadly is he. It is received for a truth, that one of them upon a 

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