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Chap. XXIX. 



of the Calmark ^Cuttles yPdjfss^ and Bodt'ffhe$ 

 called Nautili, 



Lfb theCalamarielaimccthhimfelfeout ofthc water, as if hee were an alio w: and even 

 fo doth little Scalops.The male of the Cuttles kind, are fpotted with fundry colours more 

 darke and blackifli^yeaand more firmeand fteadie, than the femalejfthe female hciinic- 

 tcn with a Trout-fpeatc,or luch like three-forked weapon, they will come to aid and fuccorhcr, 

 but (bee againe is not To kind to them : for it the male be firucken, i'hee will not ftand to it^but 

 runneth away. But both of them, the one as well as the otherjifthey perceive that they be; taken H 

 in fuch ftreights that they cannot efcapeiflied from them a eertaine blacke humour like to inke, 

 and when the water therewith is troubled and made duskiflij therein they hide themfelvcs,- and 

 are no more fee ne. 



Of Polypes or Pourcontrels, there be fundrie kinds. They tliatkeepe ne^re to the Hioari^are 

 bigger than thofe thathaunt die deepe. All of them help themfelves with their finnes and-arms, 

 like as we doe with feet and hands : as for their taile^ which Is fharpe and two forked, it ferVeth 

 them in the adl of generation. ThelePourcontrels have apipe in their back^bythc help wherof 

 *^.ihey fwim all over the feas 5 and it they can fhift, one while to die right fideiand'anodisr while to 

 the left . They fwim awrie or fide-long with their head above, wjiich is \€de hard^ arid asit were 

 puft up, fo long as they be alive . Moreover, they have eertaine hollow concavities dilpearfcd I 

 within their clawes or armes like to ventofes orcupping glafles/iihereby they will flicke too,and 

 cleave faft, as it were by fucking, to any thing 5 which they clafpe and hold fo faft (lying upward 

 with their bellies) that it cannot be plucked from them. They never fettle fo low as the bottome 

 of the water : and the greater they be, the lede ftrong they are to clalpe or hold any i;hing . Of 

 all foftfiflies, they only goe out of the water to drie land, efpecially into fome rough place; for 

 ihey cannot abide thofe that are plain andeven.They hvc upon iliell-fifhes,and wuh their hairs 

 or firings that they have,thcy will twineaboijt their lliells and cracke them in peeccs: andiherc- 

 fore a man may know where they lie and make tbeir abode , by a number o\ ilielis that lie. be- 

 fore their neft. And albeit otherwifeit be a very brutiili and fenilcffccreature/o fooliili with- 

 all, that it will fwim and come to a mans hand 5 yet it feemeth after a fort to be wittie and wile, K 

 and keeping of houfe and maintaining a family : forall that they can take, they can ic home 10 

 their neft. When they have eaten the meat of the fifties, they throw the emptie fhellsout of 

 dores, arid lie as it were iaanibuskadobehind,to watch and catch fifhes that fwim thither. They 

 chaunge theircolour«ffiies,and refemble the place where they be. and efpeciaily when thc^ 

 ;be afraid. That they gn^w and eat their owiie clawes and armc.s, is a meere untrijth ^ for they !>e 

 ^ G» t*^- v^-?-^ Congrcs that doe them that fhrewd turne ; but true it i?, that they will grow againe, like as 

 * ^^^^ fnakes, adders, and lizards. But among the greatcft .wonders of Nature, is that fifh^ 



which of fome is called Nautilos, of others Pompilos/fhi^ to come aloft above.theMfa- 



ier,turncth upon his backe,andraifethor heaveth himfelfe tip by h^ 



he might fwim with more eafCjas disburdened ofafinkCjhe difchargcth all the water witlnn hiiii £ 

 at a pipe. After this, turning up his two foremoO: clawes orarmes, bee difplaieth and flreteheth 

 out betwcenc them, a men>brane or skin of a wonderful 1 thinneflc : this ferveth him in fiead of 

 a faile in the aire above water : with the^refl qf his armes or clawcs,he roweth and laboureth un- 

 der water 5 and with his tailc in the niids, hee diredeth his Courfe, and fleereth as it were with an 

 helme.Thus holdeth he on and makedi way in.the fea> with a taire fbew ofafoifl or galley under 

 faile.Now if he be afraid of any thing in the;Way, hee mal^ps^Ao more adoe but draweth in wa- 

 ter tQ ballaiiiiKis bpdie,and fo plungeth himfelfwdownf andiigk^ 



of tU Wdnj-fiot fijl) ailed ozm; of tk ^auplm^ M ^ ^ 



Leculisofrhsfiay^rLdfier, 



fn /"^P the Polypus or Pourcontrell kind with many fcet^isthc Qzacn^, fo called of thcftrong 



f f/v ;» . fj^voiir of their headsj for which caufe efpeciaily, the Xatwpreys follow in chafe after him. 



