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the Caftom, ©f thofe people he was thrown into 
very deep Cave and there to ftarve , where many ' 
malefaftors before him had been thrown,and died ; 
with hunger; he lying there very fad> and expe- J 
^ing a lingring death, he faw a fox coming pri- 
vily and very flowly to devour a Carcafs which lay j 
by him; he feeing that covereth his face with^ 
the garment that he had about him ; and fd lay for 
dea^; the Fox at laft perceiving him lie fo, think- 
ing that he had been dead, fetteth upon him, and 
iiataediately catcheth at his garment to teare 
it off from him, the better to come to his carkafs; ] 
the man with one hand catchetli hold of the For, | 
and with the other hand keepeth on his clothes j 
that the Fm fhoiild not bite him; the Fox driving | 
to get away , the man keeping his hold, followethii 
him from one hole to another, until he came to ai j 
little hole where he faw light; he let the For goe, 
broke his way through and efcaped; but when this 
was told to the Lacede?}oomans^t\\dX Ari^iomesh' 
was efcaped and alive among his friends, theyi 
thought it as great a miracle, a? if he hadarofe 
from the dead. PUm telleth us, that if they chance 
to eat bitter Almonds it is death to them except 
they can get water; in Thrdcla if he goeth 
over any ice; he will firft lay his ear to it, ii he 
hear the current of the water underneath be w, 11 
not venture over, fearing left it be too weak to 
bear him; if a Fi>r runneth mad he Hath the fame 
qualities as a mad dog: but we have fpoken enough > 
of the nature and propertissof the creature. Au- 
thors have deduced many and yfeful inferences 
