Plinics Natural! Hiftorie. 



Chap, iiio 

 ^ of Parhsfir wild beajlso 



THe firft man of the long robe that deviled parkes as well for chefe bores as other Deere and 

 favage beaftsjwas Fulvm LippirJUSyViho in the territorie of Tarquwij^ began to keep and 

 feed wild beafts for his game. Andlongit vvasnotbut others followed his fteps^ namely^ 

 Z* LuciUltts and Mjiortcnfim, Sowcs of the wild kind bring forth pigges but once a yeere : and 

 the bores in briming time arc exceeding fierce and fell : then they fight one wiih another : they 

 harden their fides rubbing them againft the bodies of trees^and all to wallow themfdves in the 

 mircj and coac their backs with durt. But they are not fo raging then^but the fowes in their far- 

 rowing are much worfe, and lightly it is fo in all other kind of beafts. Wildbores are nox meet 

 for generation before they be a yeere old. The wild bores of India have two bowing fangs or 

 luskes of acubitlengthjgrowingoutof their mouth, and as many out of their foreheads like 

 calves homes. The briftly hairc of the wild fort^ is like %o braffe : but of others^blacke;?!!! Arabia 

 Iwinc will not live. 



Chap, liii* 

 ^ OfbeafishalfepiVdge^ 



T Here is no creature cngcndreth fo foonewithwildofthe kind^ as doth the fwine-.andiii 

 good footh fuch hogges in old time they called Hybridesjas a man would fayjhalfe wild : 

 infomuch as this tcarrae by a tranflation, hath been attributed to mankind. For fo was 

 C. Antonm. colleague with Ckero in the Confulfnipj nicknamed. And not in fwine onely^ but 

 alfoinall other living creatures, looke where there beany tameanddomefticall^youmay find 

 alfo wild and favage of the lame kind ; feeing that even of wild men there be fo many forts in 

 divers placcsj as we have before faid. As for the goats kind 3 howmany andhow fundricrefeni' 

 blances are to be found in them of other beafts ? For amongthem you lliall have the roe bucke, 

 the fhamoisjthe wild goat called iheEveckjWohderfuUfv^ift, albeit his head be loden with huge 

 homes like to fword Icabberds : by thefe they hang and poifc themfelves from rockes, namely^ 

 when they mind to leapefrom one to another, for by Twinging too and fro they skip and jump 

 the more nimbly, and fetch a jerke out to Avhat place they lift, as it were fordi of an engine . Of 

 this kind, be the Oryges^thconely beafts (arifomethinke)of allotheis, that are faid to have 

 their haire growing contrariwife and turning toward thehcad.To thcle belong the Does^ and a 

 kind of fallow Deere called Pygargi,as alfo thofe that are named StrepficeroteSjand many other 

 not farre unlike. As for the former fort, they come out of the Aipes ; thefelaft rehearfedjare fent 

 from other parts beyond -ica* 



Chap. Liiif. 

 Of 'Jps dfjd Ahnkejs, 



LI the kind of thefe Apes approach neei^eftof allbeafis,totherefemblanceof a mans 

 fhape : but they diffei: one from another in thctailc. MarveiIouscraftic andfubtle they be 

 to beguile thcmfelvcs'.forby report, as they fee hunters doe beforcthcra, tUeywiilimi- 

 latethemin every point, even to befmeare themfelves widiglew and birdlime, and 11jo,o their 

 feetwithin grins and fnares,and by thatmcancs ate caught. ow/^//<j;v7^4 faith, that he hatfefeene 

 Apes play at cheifc and tables jand that at firft fight they could know nuts made of waxe from 

 others. Hsaffirmeth moreover, that when themooneis inthewaine, the monkeys and mar- 

 mofcts (which in this kind have tailes) be fad andhsavie, butthe new raoone they adore and 

 joy atj which they teftifie by hopping and dauncing. As for thceclipfe offunne ormconc, 

 ^..1 ^1 other four- footed beafts alfo doe greatly di-ead andfeare.The Inee Apes of ajl forts are' won^ 

 perous fond of thcirlittle ones :and inch as aris made tame within.houfc:,M?illcaTriethqm:jn their 

 armes all about fo foone as they have brought them into the world, kee^pe a fhewin g of them to 

 every bodie,- and they take pleafure tohaye them dandled by Others, as; if thereby they-tooke 

 knov^iedgd uiiitfolke joycdibr their fafe delivfirance : but fuch aenUii?g 0)^,4 h«§gii>g.. of them 



Xij / they 



