Of Oyadrupede s. 
ART 
I. 
(a) Lib. 1 6, 
c. 15 
(b) Barlsi 
Res Brafil. 
p. 223. 
CO Ibid. 
(d) Chin, 
llluftt. 
(e) Fab.Co- 
lum. lib. de 
Aquat. & 
Terrell. 
Cf) Solium 
and others 
quoted by 
Bochart. 
The GREAT TAMANDUA; by the People of 
Bra file,Tamandua-guacu 5 by the Englijh ,the Great Ant-Bear- 
Becaufe he feeds upon Ants, and is lhagg’d, and hinder¬ 
footed almoft like a Bear. He hath alfo a very long and 
lharp Snout, a fender Tongue, and extenfible to a great 
length, alfo a long and bruihy Tail: which are his prin¬ 
cipal Characters. See him defcnbed in John, de Laet, out 
ol Lenus, in Guliel.Pifo, Marggravius, and others. Abba- 
’■ vtUanus, quoted alfo by Job. de Laet, (a) hath given a 
different Defcnption 5 and probably a falfe one. 
He catcheth Ants by fcratchingopen their fubterraneal 
Hives, and then thrufting his Tongue into them 5 which 
after awhile, he draws back into his mouth laden with 
the Prey, (b) He ufeth his Tail for a Cover, which, like a 
Squirrel, he fometimes fpreads over his whole body U) 
The SKULL of the RIVER-HORSE or HIP¬ 
POPOTAMUS. If we refpect his Figure, he were more 
properly called BUPOT AM US, or RIVER-OXE. 
And accordingly the Germans rightly call him Wajjer- 
Ochb an d the Italians at Confiantinople B OMAR IN 
The fame Animal, which in the Book of Job is called 
BEHEMOTH-, as is folidly proved by Bochart, in Ins 
Hierozoicon. He is almoft every where defcnbed very 
falflv. Arijlotle falfly gives him a Maine, like that of a 
Horfe : deluded, Pis likely, by the Name, lurcher (d) 
falfly gives him all Horfe Teeth. In the Mufieum Roma¬ 
nian, he is defcnbed with double Hoofs like an Ox, and 
pictured with four or five Claws like a Bear neither truly. 
Bellonius, who faw one alive, but yet very young, was 
thehrff that hath given any tollerable Defcnption of him. 
Yet as to the Teeth, he is miftaken, comparing them all to 
thofe of a Horfe: probably becaufe they were not yet 
grown, (e) But Columna, who alfo faw one, and that full 
grown, hath given a mod accurate Defcnption hereof, 
his principal Characters being thefe3 Four yards and half 
long, about two yards high, a yard and half broad. Short 
C S, fofo ven -h°°fed 3 yet not with two, but four Hoofs. 
Tailed like a Tortoife. (Or like a Hog, (f) which he alfo 
twills in the finae manner) Head almoft like an Ox. His 
Chaps wide. His Eyes Email. His fore Teeth prodigioufly 
great, being forne of them i a foot round about, above i 
of 
