The eiglitli Booke of 



his vcrieboWj alidthdve of arrowcs, as at teunge and ^vonderous things -They palTe the Q 

 feas fwimlning by flockes and whole heards in a long row, each one rcftingrhis head upoti 

 the buttockes of his fellow next before him : and this they doe in courfe, (o as the foremoft 

 rctireth behind to the hindmoft, by tumcs one after another : and this is ordinarily obfervcd 

 byihofc failers thatpafle fronnQlicia to Cypres. And yet in their fwimming they defcrie no 

 land by the eye j but only by their finelling have an aime thereat.The males bf this kind are hor- 

 ned, ^nd they (abovcall other livingcreatures) caft them everie yeere once, at a certaine rime 

 of the fpring: andto that purpofe a Utde before the very day of their mewing, they feek the moft 

 fecret corners and mofl: out of the way,in the whole tbrrcft. When they are pollards, theyieepc 

 cloie hiddenjas if they were difarmed : and all this they dojas if they envied ihatmen fhouid have 

 good of any thing that they had. And in very truth, the right horn(they ray)can never be founsd,; 

 as ifit had fomc rare and fingular vcrtuc in Phyficke. A Itraungeand marveilous things c6nCu 

 dcring that in the parkes they chaunge thenn every yeere , infomuch as it is thought verily^ thae 

 they, hide tlicmvmhin the earth.But burne whether of them ye will, the left as well as the rigbrs 

 , this is certein, That the fmell and perfume thereof driveth fcrpents away, and difcovereth them 

 thawrefubjeittothe fits of the falling difeale. A man may alfo know their age by their heads, 

 for every yeere they have one knag or braunch jnore in their horns than before,untili they come 

 to fix : after which tira€,they come new ever alikej fb as their age cannot be difcerned any more 

 by the headjbut the raarke is taken by their mouth and teeth : tor as they grow in age, they have 

 few or no teeth at all, nc yet grow the braunchesoutat the root, whereas all the while they were 

 younger, they ufed to have them breake forth and ftanding out at the very fore-head. After they I 

 be guelded once, aeithercaft they their homes which they had before, neither grow there any 

 iftheyhad none whdri they wcrelibbed. At thefirft when they breake out againe,liketheybe'to 

 the glandules or kernels of drie skin, that newputforth : then grow they with tender ftalkcs,into 

 certaine round and long knobs of the reed mace, covered all over with a certaine foft plume 

 downe like velvet. Solongasthey bedeftituteof their homes, and perceive their heads naked, 

 they goefoorth toreleefebynight,andas they grow bigger and bigger, they harden them in 

 the hot funne, eftlbons making proofc of them againft trees , and when they perceive once thac 

 they be tough and ftrong enoughsthcn they goe abroad boldly. And cerieinely fome of them 

 have been taken with green Ivie flicking faft and growing in their homes, remaining there fince 

 time that they ran them (when they were but tender) againft fome trees, for triall whether they K 

 were good or no, and ib chaunced toraccthe Ivie from the wood of the tree. You fhall have 

 them fomtime white of colour, and fuch an one was the hind that ^srtorius had aboutjwhtch 

 he perfuaded the people of Spaine to be his foothfayer^and to tell him of things to come. This 

 kind of Deere maintaine fight with ferpcnts, and arc their mortall enemies : they will folloiv 

 ihemto their vcrie holes^and there (by the flrength of drawing and fnuffing up their wind at the 

 noftrils) force them out whether they will or no : and therfore there is not fo good a thing again 

 to chafe awayierpents,as is the fmoke and fmell of an Harts home burnt. But againft their fting 

 or bitingjthere is a fingular remedie, with the runnet in the maw of a fawnc or Hind-calfe killed 

 in the dams belly. It is generally held and confelTed, that the Stagge or Hind live long: for an 

 hundred yeer after Alexander the Grear,fome were taken with golden collars about their necks, L 

 overgrowne now with haireand growne within the skin: which collars, thefaid king had done 

 upon them.This crcaturcjof all difeafcs is not khjcd to the fever,but he is good to cureit J have 

 knowne great ladies and dames of ftate, ufe every morning to eat the venilon of red Deere,and 

 thereby to have lived to a great age and never had the ague; but it is thought this is a certaine 

 icmedie and never failetb, in cafe the flag be ftruckcnftarkc dead at once with one wound and 

 nomore. 



Chap, xxxiit 



of the jhag-haired and bearded Stagge like to a Coat / 



as aljoof theChamaleon, M 



OF the fame kind is the Goat harc,and differing oncly in the beard and long fhag about the 

 fhoulders, which they call Tragelaphis : and this breedethno where but about the rivcc 

 Phafis. Atfricke in a manner is the oncly countriy that breedcth no flags and hinds : but 



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