ancJ know the difference between guperiors ami inferiors ! 



^ THE aiA-HOBSB. 



This animal i6 found in Mftcasearj where it frequently 

 cornea on shore to seek after its mate i on which occasions 

 It ia sometimes caught. It* hair iff of a fine black colotir and 

 very ftleek ; its tail is long and sweeps the ground ; on shore 

 it walki about like other hora«s, is very traclabb, and will 

 go several hundred miles in a day ; but yoii must not attempt 

 to bathe it in the river ; for no sooner doae it see water, 

 than ita former nature revives, and darting into the stream, 

 it swims away ; and as its strength is great is not to be 

 caught again,* 



^ A* THE SKA'MAS 



Is found on the shores of the nouihern ocean ; its body is 

 about three or four cubits long, in appearance not very un- 

 like that of a man; its colout isyclloWj and fro tn the navel 

 proceeds a stalk several hundred feet in lengthy which la at- 

 tached to the rocks at the bottom of the sea. Whenever it is 

 produced, male and female appear together, so that there are 

 no solitary f>er8on3 among them. The Dutch who are very 

 desirous of collecting all sorts of cnrions things, jjay the fish- 

 ermen to catch these, but when the root ii severed they die ; 

 they are however, put into spirits and preserved. Whenever 

 Europeans hear of a strange and uausual aniraalj they spare 

 no expense to procure it, in order to gratify their curiosity; 

 after which, they put it into a bottle with spirits^ and ar- 

 rangB it in a cabinet, where they have all sorta of wonder- 

 ful birds and uncouth beasts, poisonous snakes and ugly fisheB^ 

 and every thing else that you can think of. 



J^^^ TMS INK MONKEY 



li common in the aorlhern regions and is about four of iive 

 inches long ; it is endowed with an unusual instinct ; ils 



• In this and the following account, Uie Chinese writer has allow- 

 ed himself to be miakd hj the fabulous reH&tioua of others. 



