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A46231	A description of the nature of four-footed beasts with their figures en[graven in brass] / written in Latin by Dr. John Johnston ; translated into English by J.P.; Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; J. P.	1678 (1678)	Wing J1015A; ESTC R8441	269,099	196

kept in a thick glasse-bottle waxed over It recovers the lost sent if you hang it in an open pot in a house of office For the use of Musk Authours differ about the temper of it Averroes holds it hot and dry in the end of the second degree Sethus in the third All confesse it to be a thin substance It drawes out blood put to the nose and opens the vessels of the body It is besides used to strengthen and against trembling fainting wind to purge the head in sweet-balls and wash-balls in censing in pomanders and sweet-oyntments Yet it is ill for the mother to some women as the Venetian and Northern women POINT VI. Of the Bezoar or the Pazahartica-Goat MEn write diversly in the describing of the Bezoartican-Goat Bell●nensis seems to deny there is any such beast while he relates out of Thiphasis the Arabian that that they call the Bezoar-stone is taken out of the veins The Arabs fetch it from the Harts Monardes from the testimony of eye-witnesses reports it to be as great as the Hart and resembling him Bontius saith that he is shaped like our goats of Europa except that they have more upright and longer horns and that some of them are partly coloured as Tigers and goodly to look on two whereof are to be seen in the fort in Batavia The greater or lesser the stone is that they carry the nimbler or heavier they go which the wily Armenians and Persians well know They feed on an herb like Saffran the eating whereof breeds that stone Whence it comes to passe that because an Isle between Cormandel and Ceylon called by the Portugals Isle de Vaccas or of Cows is sometimes overflowen that the goats must be transported thence to save them they being deprived of that herb breed not that stone and when the waters are down and they are brought back thether they yield the Bezoar-stone again which is as troublesome to them as to us the stone is in the bladders or reins Whence we may gather how vain their relations are that tell us that it is bred in their bowels or reins or the gall Some call it Pasani some Balsaar some Pazaher that is an antidote against poyson It is bred especially in Persia in Stabanon three dayes journey beyond Lara where the Persian Kings are watchful to challenge for themselves all the stones that exceed a certain weight They are of several shapes and kindes some much costlier then others and of greater vertue and efficacy There are counterfaits made Monardes from the relation of Guido de Lavaretus writes the right ones are made up of kind of lates or barks folded within one another very bright and shining as if they were pollished having within a dust or a chaffe Bontius thinks that Genuine that rubed on a piece of chalk shews a light-red cast into a bason full of water and left there three hours together looses nothing of the weight When the counterfait becomes hevier or lighter taken out of water and rubed with chalk splits Much is written by many of the vertues thereof that laid on any bare part of the body it defends it against poyson That the powder cures bites sprinkled on the bitten place That cast on wild beasts it benums them and kills vipers with any liquor That all receits taken against poyson and malignant Fevers are vain unlesse Bezoar be also used Monardes gives examples of diverse hereby rescued out of the very jawes of death It helps melancholy quartons fainting fits epilepsies giddinesse stone worms and what not But it is observed to be more helpful to women then men Some in India dream that it makes them young again Monardes hath a whole tract about it But Bontius writes that he findes by a thousand experiments that the vertue thereof is not so great He saith that the stones called pazahar bred in the stomack of the Simior are round and above a finger long and are counted the best Hether may be referred the Vicuna and Taruga The Vicuna is a swift beast of Peru. It is hornlesse else like a wild goat Nether is that any hinderance that he wants horns since there are dogs that are said to have horns when most have none He delights in mountanious and rocky places She loves cold and deserts She seems to be refreshed with snow and frosts She loves company and the Herd She runs from all men she meets putting her young ones afore being carefull of them She is taken by a swift chase to which end three thousand Barbarians compasse a mountain and by degrees make all the wild here together sometimes more then three hundred they send the females after the young ones They are taken also when they come to a convenient space and toyles of cord and lead laid for them They shear them to make coverlids their wool is fine as silke of a lasting colour being natural it needs no dye In hot whether it refreshes helping the inflammation of the reins wherefore they stuffe therewith tikes for beds It is said to ease the Gout The flesh hath no good relish yet it is an Indian dainty And a piece of it new killed and laid on the eye removes suddenly the smart They breed the Bezoar in the bowels next to the eastern Vicuna is the Taruca of that kind but swifter and greater and deeper colour of soft and dangling ears not delighting in company she wanders among rocks alone In these is the Bezoar-stone found both of greater vertue and bulk POINT VII Of the Scythian Suhak and the Goat with dangling eares OF the Scythian Suhak see Aldrovan pag. 313. We owe to Aristotle the mention of the Goat with hanging-ears a palm and more broad and reaching near the ground Probably it is that in the print here following which they call the Indian Goat and the Syrian Mambrina By the wool hair face and horns it seems to resemble a sheep rather then a Goat The colour is white POINT VIII Of the Oryx THree sorts of creatures are by the Greeks termed Oryges One a water one two land ones Of the first Strabo writes treating of Turdetamia which some suppose to be the Sea-orke Of the two latter kinds Pliny and Oppian mention The name Oryx comes from To Orytte●n or digging because at new Moon it turns eastward and digs up the earth with the fore-feet For the shape it is one-horned and cloven-footed It is of the kind of wild Goats But of a contrary hayr turning toward the head as it grows on the Aethiopian Bull. He is engendred in the driest parts of Africa ever without drinke and strongly usefull against thirst for the Getulian theeves hold out by a draught of wholesome liquor found in their bladders Albertus saith that he is as big as a Hart bearded used to the deserts and easily taken in a net Herodotus makes him as great as an Ox Nor have we any certainty of

pace They can hold out a day and a night without eating or drinking If you take the yong one you may make the dame so tame that shee will be brought to drink beere with you He hath such a strength in his hoof that with one blow hee can kill a wolf and bruise a tree as if it were a toad-stool The natives where they are eat the flesh both fresh and salted but the juice seems to be but grosse and melancholy In Phisick the horne is binding and good against the epilepsy if cut off between the feast of the birth and that of the assumption of the Virgin Mary Some say on Aegidius his day The sinews are used in Swethland against the cramp made into a girdle and tied about the part in paine The hoof helps against the falling-sicknesse and the stopping of the womb or hystericae The outer right hind-hoof of the male afore he hath coupled choped of from the live-foot with a hatchet after mid-August is a present help for the cramp and fainting fits if you make a ring of it for your left hand or if you grasp it in your right hand or put a bit into the left eare and sometimes pick the eare therewith The shavings of it with zedoary helps womens griefs ARTICLE XI Of the Rhinoceros THe Rhinoceros borrows his name from the horn in his snout Some call him an Aegyptian Ox some an Aethiopian Bull but they mistake for there are none in Aegypt except by chance In Aethiopia indeed is a bull like him in the horn which the unskilfull miscall a Rhinoceros Authours are most uncertain in their description of him Pliny in short thus That hee hath one horn in his Nose he is as tall as the Elephant his thighs much shorter box-coloured Others add that he hath a swines-head an oxes-tayl the Elephants hew his horn is two foot long that he is in the Province of Mangus that he is cold of temper the horn on the tip of his snowt is sharp strong as iron his skin so tough that no dart can pierce it that he hath another shorter horn on his right shoulder Some say two in his nose others say one in his forehead Some make the horn strait like a Trumpet with a black crosse streaked Some say it is crooked some flat some turning up Some write that he hath two girdles on his back curling and winding like those of Dragons one turning toward his mane the other toward his loyns But Bontius who hath seen the Rhinoceros a hundred times both kept in Den and loose in woods writes that his skin is ash-coloured like the Elephants very rugged full of deep folds on the sides and back thick of hide that a Japons sword cannot enter the folds are like shields or shells He is hog-snouted but not so blunt-nosed their horn at the end is different according to their age in some ash-coloured sometimes black sometimes white he is not so long-legged nor sightly as the Elephant He is found in the deserts of Africa in Abasia in many parts of Asia in Bengala and Jacatra Not knowen to the Greeks in Aristoteles time nor to the Romans afore the year DCLXVI after the building of Rome Some say Augustus shewed on in a Triumph Some that Pompey was the first who presented him in his Palays He hath a rough tongue and feeds on grasse and briars He holds enmity with the Elephant He hurts not mankind unlesse provoked When he is to fight he sharpens his horn on the stones In combate he aimes at the belly which he knows to be soft out of which he lets all his enemies blood If he cannot come at the belly the Elephant with his trunk and teeth dispatcheth him Provoked he makes no more of a Man and an Horse then of a flea he can with his sharp tongue lick a man to death fetching of skin and flesh to the bare bones Shoot him and he with a hideous cry layes all flat that comes in his way even the thickest trees Read stories of his fiercenes in Bontius Hee delights strangely in mud Being to fight shee secures her yong one first Hee grunts like a hog The Moors feed on his flesh which is so sinewy that they had need of iron teeth to chaw it The skin steeped in wine is given in against malignant feavers The horne some prescribe against poyson The dainty ones among the Romans used it in bathing for a cruize They kept oyl in it for them that bathed I cannot say there are different kinds of these beasts Yet they say there was one taken in Africa as great as a wild Asse the horn two cubits long the feet like the Deers eared like the Horse tayled like the Ox. CHAPTER III. Of the fourefooted Beasts chevving the cud that have no horns ARTICLE I. Of the Camell THus far of the Horned-beasts chewing the cud Those that have no horns are the Camell and the Camell-panther The Camell is so called either from the Hebrew Gamal or the Greek Kamnoo to labour since hee is a Beast of carriage or from Chamai lowly because hee kneels to take up his burden or from Kammeros crooked from his manner of bending Hee is cloven-footed but behind on one fashion afore on another the clefts like the Gooses are filled The Bunch on their back differences them from all other beasts Hee hath another below like it that seems to support his body it is about the bending of the knee The female hath four teats like the Cow Tayled like the Asse The Genital behind and so sinewy that with it men bend the strongest bows On either thigh a knee nor more folds but they seeme so many because they come under the belly The ankle like the Oxes The buttock answers the bulk of the body The gall is not distinct but confounded with certain veins Hee hath no fore-teeth above Hee alone of the hornles beasts hath a double stomack to disgest his thorny hard food Therefore the skin that covers his mouth and stomack is througout rough Some write of their marrow and sewet They are found in Africa and Asia in Bactria especially and Arabia and in Ionia by the city Clazomenia where they leave whole fields for them to feed in Mithridates being overcome by the river Rhijndacus they were first saith Salust seen at Rome but there wee of them seen in the Achaian and Asian warre Ptolomy at Lagus shewed a Bactrian one all over coleblack among his sights They delight in thorny and woody food they brows also on bulrush tops nor refuse they barly alone or with hay or thin low grasse sometimes content with thistles Now a dayes they that travell through the deserts of Arabia give each five barly cakes a day as bigh each as an Quince They can goe four dayes together without drinke but when they come to water