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gray squirrel of Russia. It was so called from Calabria* 
whence it was imported. Piers Ploughman describes 
a physician as clad in a furred hood and cloak of 
calabrere. 
Chisamus, cicimus, or sismusilis was a valuable species 
of fur mentioned by the historians and poets of the 
Middle Ages. It was probably the skin of the Pontic 
mouse. 
Lituite, a fur only used in doublings, was so called 
from the skin of the lituit, or white martyn cat. Jennet, 
or genet, was the fur of the wild cat. 
Dossus, from the French dos, was the fur from the 
back of the squirrel, the same as the fur called in France 
petit gris. 
Olaus Magnus describes the Wolverine, Glutton, or 
Wood Dog {Gulo luscus), one of the fur-pro- ^ 
ducing animals mentioned by Dr. Fletcher 
in his list of Russian commodities :— 
“Amongst all creatures that are thought to be insatiable in the 
northern parts of Sweden, the gulo hath its name to be the principall; 
and in the vulgar tongue they call him jerjf, but in the German 
language vielfras, in the Sclavonish speech rossamaka, from his much 
eating ; and the made Latin name is gulo; for he is so called from his 
gluttony. He is as great as a great dog, and his ears and face are like 
a cats ; his feet and nails are very sharp : Ms body is hairy with long 
brown hair, his tail is like the foxes, but somewhat shorter, but his 
hair is thicker, and of this they make brave winter caps. The flesh 
of this creature is altogether uselesse for man’s food: but his skin is 
very commodious and pretious. For it is of a white brown black 
colour, like a damask cloth wrought with many figures ; and it shews 
the more beautiful, as by the industry of the artists it is joyn’d with 
other garments in the likenesse or colour. Princes and great men use 
this habit in winter made like coats; because it quickly makes heat 
and holds it long ; and that not only in Swethland, and Gothland, but 
in Germany, where the rarity of these skins makes them to be more 
esteemed, when it is prised in ships among other merchandise. And I 
do not think fit to overpasse, that when men sleep under these skins, 
they have dreams that agree with the nature of that creature and have 
an insatiable stomach.” (Page 180.) 
