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the Wall with a Stilt-like motion : They often allb 
Fight (bjthat they kill one another j for they are very 
tender, and are eafily killed 5 and this is well feen in 
them from an inftinft of nature j therefore with their 
legs contrafted and affixed to both fides they fit, and 
defend themfelves 5 for then their bodies being de- 
fended on every fide with their Feet, as Tents with 
Pales, they fit fafe , prevailing againft the Spiders, that 
affault them, with their own ftrength 5 in this pofture 
one of them cannot kill another at one affault ; what 
do they then will you fay > The more ftrong en- 
tangle the Feet of the more weak with a wondcrfull 
dexterity , and hold them fb bound, like the final! 
tendrells you fee on vines, which wreath about and 
encircle the branches, and embrace them j and then 
they hold their Feet fo enfiiared with theirs, and 
break them one after another; nor do they ceafe, till 
they have pulled off foureor five of them, this being 
done, they leape upon them, and bite them, and fuck 
the wound 5 and leave nothing, but an ExanguiouS 
fkin, fuckt dry, and the reft of the Feet. 
One of this kind of Spiders I kept long , with 
Water of Saltpeeter and Liffie mixt j he was very fierce, 
he alwayes overcame all the Spiders I offered him, al- 
though he found fome amongft them, which took him 
up much time, and gave him Ibme danger of recover- 
ing his health, which he cou’dnot overcome, but with 
much difficulty ; at length he remained Vidlor of all, 
viz. Thirty in number, which I gave him one after 
another. 
I placed before him two Pots ; in the one I gave 
him Meat, in the other Drink 3 but he put his Feet 
into one, and the ^ry Cafeafl'es of the Spiders he had 
killed. 
Having eaten thefe Sliders, he grew great, and put on 
a Black^Colof/r-, at length he dyed, no doubt of the a* 
bund;ance of the juice, which he fukt from the 
;ahd their Fltfh which he had eaten. , 
