Part I. Of Quadrupedes, 1 1 
for which caufe, partly, they have all more eafie Labour 
than a Woman. 
The THROTTLE BONE of a Male A QUI- 
QJJ 1 3 which the People of Brafile call the King-Mon- 
key 3 being far bigger than all the other kinds 3 clefcnbcd 
by J. de Laet, (a) out of Lerms. Tis a Bone, fo called W Lib. 15. 
by the Englijh, with the help ot which he makes a very c ' 5 ' 
great noife. For 'tis hollow, and very hard. Exceeding 
thin, and fo half traiifparent. In length two Inches and 
§. In height an Inch and In breadth almoft two Inches. 
At one end, hath an Aperture an Inch wide every way. On 
the top furrow'd, fo as to refemble a Puppies Skull. 
I fuppofe it is placed in the Throat, or at the upper 
end of the Larynx,ncar the Epiglottis. Job. Leriu* defcnbing 
of it, (b) fallly calls it a Membrane. 
The S LOATH. Ignavus five Pigritia. An Animal ^ 1 
of fo flow a motion, that he will be three or four days, 
at leaft, in climbing up and coming down a Tree. (V) <yt Bartaras 
And to go the length of fifty Paces on plain ground, re- dePe 2 b,BraC 
quires a whole day. (d) The Natives or Brafile call him c^clkuss 
Haii , from his voice of a like found : which he com- 
monly repeats about fix times together, defcending, as if 
one fhould ling, La, fo/, fa, mi, re, ut. (e) Whatfoever he (0 id. 
takes hold of, he doth it fo ftrongly ( or rather ft i fly ) as 
fometimesto fleep fecurely while he hangs at it. (f) See (/) Guiici; 
his Defcnption in Clnfius, Marggraviws, Pifo, and others. Pifa 
They all feem to omit the length of his fore feet, which is 
almoft double to that of his hinder. 
From the fhag of his Body, the fhape of his Legs, his 
having little or no Tail, the flownefs of his gate, and his 
climbing up of Trees, as little Bears are us'd to do, lie feems 
to come near the Bear- kind : from which he chiefly differs, 
In having but three Claws upon a foot. He breedeth prin- 
cipally in Florida and Brafile, 
Two BLACK-BEAR CUBS. The Defcnption 
of the Bear, fee in Aldrovandus, Gefner, isre. The Ana- 
tomy, in the Philofophical Tranfattions, N. 4.9. They breed 
moft in Nova Zembla, and other of the more Northerly 
Countries. In Norway they hunt him, and fo in Helvetia 
and Mufcovy, and if he be fat, they account him a delicate afif^cib^ 
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