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The Animal-Lore of Shahspeare’s Time. 
Miles Philips, another explorer, relates his adventures on 
a voyage to the West Indies, in 1568. He writes:— 
“We were also, oftentimes, greatly annoyed with a kind of fly 
which in the Indian tongue is called tequani , and the Spaniards call 
them musketas. There are also in the said country, a number of other 
flies, hut none so noisome as these tequanies be. You shall hardly see 
them they be so small; for they are scarce so big as a gnat. They 
will suck one’s blood marvellously, and if you kill them while they 
are sucking, they are so venomous that the place will swell extremely 
even as one that is stung with a wasp or bee : but if you let them suck 
their fill and go away of themselves, they do you no other hurt, but 
leave behind them a red spot somewhat bigger than a flea-biting.” 
(. Hakluyt’s Voyages , rep. Arber’s English Garner , vol. v. p. 276.) 
The writer of this account met with adversaries more 
cruel and bloodthirsty than the dreaded mosquito. He 
and his companions were put ashore by Sir John Hawkins, 
on account of the failure of provisions. A short time 
after they landed they were seized by Spaniards, taken 
to Mexico, and handed over to the mercy of the In¬ 
quisition. After about fifteen years of misery and servi¬ 
tude, Philips contrived to make his escape and to return 
to England. 
“ There is a differency between a grub and a Butterfly; yet your 
butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown from man 
Butterfly, to dragon: he has wings; he’s more than a creeping 
thing.” ( Coriolanus , v. 4, 10.) 
The transformations of the butterfly were imperfectly 
understood. Topsell describes several species of cater¬ 
pillars, in language so quaint as well to repay perusal, 
but a short extract must here suffice. He writes :— 
“ If I should goe about to describe and set downe all the differences 
and varieties of caterpillers, I might perhaps undertake an endlesse and 
tedious labour. I thinke it therefore fittest to bend my slender skill, 
and to imploy my best forces, in speaking of such as are more notable 
and common with us in this country. For some of them in touching 
are rough, hard, and stiffe; and other-some againe, are soft, smooth, 
and very tender. Some are horned, either in the head or in the tayle, 
