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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	grow_v	root_n	small_a	3,915	5	5.8532	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35762	A discription of Tangier, the country and people adjoyning with an account of the person and government of Gayland, the present usurper of the kingdome of Fez, and a short narrative of the proceedings of the English in those parts : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter from the King of Fez to the King of England, for assistance against his rebellious subjects, and another from Grayland to His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second : with divers letters and passages worthy of note / translated from the Spanish into English, and published by authority.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Ghaylān, Aḥmad al-Khāḍir ibn ʻAlī, d. 1673.; Teviot, Andrew Rutherford, Earl of, d. 1664.	1664 (1664)	Wing D1151; ESTC R12756	46,144	89

of the Party deceased their Kings being buried in Palaces Hereabout are Gardens of ten or twenty miles in length through which they derive small Veins of the River from some of which they carry away 15000 cart-loads twice a year Here no Mahometan is suffered to be a Goldsmith or a Coyner for they say That is an Employment good enough for a Jew Of their Beasts 1. THe first is the Elephant plentiful in the Land of the Negroes and taken by the Inhabitants thus They make a round hedge of Boughs and Rafts leaving a space round on the one side of them and likewise a door standing upon the plain ground which may be lift up with Ropes wherewith they can easily stop the said open place or passage the Elephant coming to take his rest under the shady boughs entreth the hedge or inclosure where the Hunters by drawing the said Rope and fastening the door imprison him 2. The second is Girapha headed like a Camel eared like an Ox and footed like a Horse 3. Their Camels and Dromedaries their strength treasure and pleasure wherefore if you ask how rich a man is they will say he hath so many Camels they are watred but once in five days and can go without water or provender fifteen When they are tired they will not go for beating but with singing such songs as they are pleased with The swiftest of them will carry you an hundred miles a day and the slowest but eight They teach them to dance thus They take a young Camel and put him for half an hour together into a place like a Bath-stove prepared for the same purpose the floor whereof is hot with fire then play they without upon a Drum whereat the Camel not so much in regard of the noyse as of the hot pavement that offendeth his feet lifteth up one leg after another in the manner of a Dance and having been accustomed to this exercise for the space of a year and ten moneths they then present him to the publick view of the people whenas hearing the noyse of a Drum and remembring the time when he trod upon the hot floor he presently falleth a dancing and leaping and so Use being turned into a kinde of Nature he perpetually observeth the same custome 4. The fourth is the Barbary-horse brought up in the wild desert and broken by Arabians since Ishmael's time The tryal of these Horses is the overtaking of a Beast called Lant or Ostrich which if he can do he is worth 1000 Duckats Used they are for Hunting fed with Camels milk and never rid while in Pasture 5. The next sort of Beasts is 1. The white Ox called Dant or Lant of whose skin they make sheilds 2. Adimaim like a Ram in every thing but his long Asses cars of whose wool they make Coverlets as of their Milk Butter and Cheese whose tayls as do the Barbary Rams weigh some ten some twenty pound apiece all the fat of them is in their tayl 3. The Lyon who the hotter the Country is the fiercer especially towards Spring-time and their time of coupling when nothing is spared by them but a woman that sheweth her privy-parts at the sight whereof they cry cast their eyes to the ground and depart 4. The spotted Leopard that never killeth any thing but when toyled by Hunters into an extreamity whosoever lets a Leopard escape his Toyl must feast all the Hunters of that Province 5. The Dabuh that is brought out of his Den with singing 6. The Civer-Cat whose excrement which is nothing but their sweat they gather thus thrice a day they keep the young ones with milk bran and flesh in cages and grates and first they drive them up and down the Grate till they sweat and then they take the said sweat from under their flanks their shoulders their necks and their tayls which excrement of sweat is onely called Civet 7. The Apes and Coneys run up and down in companies one of them always watching the husbandmans coming 8. The Crocodile that goeth on four legs like a Lizzard not above a cubit and an half high its tayl is full of knots it lurks about the banks of a River craftily laying wait for men and beasts that come the same way about whom suddainly it winds its tayl draweth them into the water and devoureth them In eating they move the upper Jaw onely their nether Jaw being joyned unto their breast-bone I saw them running and gaping on the banks-side and little Birds flying in and out of their mouths which sometimes they would catch when they had eaten up the worms in their jaws but that a little prick upon the Birds head so galleth them that they must let it go 9. The Hydra against whose poyson there is no remedy but the cutting off the infected part 10. The Dab a creature like a Lizzard that cannot endure water and revived when dead by fire 11. The Guoral whose head and tayl they say is poyson and whose body they eat as good meat 12. The Camelion like a Lizzard save that it hath a Mouses tayl nourished with air roasted in Sun-beams at which it gapes and changeth its colour with its place 13. The silly Ostrich that seedeth on Iron and forgetteth her great Egges of eleven or twelve pounds apiece in the sand 14. The Locusts that fly in such swarms that they intercept the Sun-beams 15. The Monster begot between the Male-Eagle and the She-Wolf that hath a Serpents tayl and skin a Wolfs feet a Dragons beake and wing that lives 300 years they say Fruits AS for their Fruits besides what we formerly mentioned they have 1. Euphorbium an herb like the wild Thistle upon the branches whereof grow fruits like Cucumbers 20 or 30 upon each which when ripe are pricked for their slimy Juyces which the people put in Bladders and dry 2. Maus or Musa growing on a small tree which beareth large leaves of a cubit long big as a Cucumber sweet as a Musmillion they 〈◊〉 it was the fruit forbidden our first Parents in Paradise because the leaves are fit to cover the nakedness 3. Terfez a Root like Mushroom growing in hot grounds but of a cooling vertue as lushious as Sugar and being boyled in water and milk is a great dainty in Sela. 4. The Ettalche an high and thorny tree bearing leaves like the Juniper and sweating a Gum like Mastick the onely Remedy there against the French Pox. 5. The Root Tauzorghent an inch whereof perfumes a house three years and is sold in one place for half a Duckat and in another for 100 Duckats 6. The Root Addad that kills a man in an hour with the smell of it a Present the good Women send sometimes to their beloved Husbands 7. The Root Turnag which they take to strengthen men upon which if a Maid make water she looseth her Virginity yea and swelleth too they say FINIS * To Sir G. R. This Tow a likewise is Good Port. * Viz. The Punick Lev. 2. 11. Vid. Critic Sacra in loc