'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎385] (408/448)

The %emora 7 Tortoyf 585
TheRemora or Echeneis is by Fracaflorm faid to be of the fame nature: Remora
tnra Torpedinis eft: effmdtt e corpore [no humor em quendam vifco/ifimum & frmdiffmHm
qm earn acjuam qua & circa gabernaculum Navis whit, congelat, ut ad motum reddatur inhabi-
hs, &:c. qualities I leave to better inquiry.
Albeit 'tis frequently fo reported/ and the Figure with a memorable ftory thereof paint-
ted in the Vice-Roy s Palace at Goa: which how far it may ferve for proof I fliall not here
de<-ermin€. But being dead has not this quality. Moreover, this Ifle affords Goats,
Hogs, Beeves, and land TortoifesTortoifes fb great, as fuffer two Men with cafe to
fit •, and fo ftrong, as carry them: yea (as fome report) fifteen Men have at once ftood
upon them. Anftotle concerning this Animal writes, that no oviparous Creature which
either layes eggs or fpawns do urine, the Tortoife excepted. Sailers affecfl to eat them j
but are better meat for Hogs in my opinion: thqy make pretty fport, but are courfe food;
c 0 ^ r u u B u ats u arid M 0 nk e y s : molt of which ufeful and unufeful creatures were
firft brought hither by the For mad for refrefhment,in their return from India ; but at this
day the and Dutch reap their Harvefts. Birds had here at no charge and little la
bour are Hens, Bats, Herons, &c. The Hens flock together twenty and forty in a company-
if you catch one you may catch all: the fureft way is by fhewing them a red cloth 3 for k
feemsthatcolourexafperatestheirfpleen, asappears by thealfaults they will make; for
when one is ftruck down the refidue budge not: they eat like par cht Pigs if you roaft them.
The Herons through a long continued fecurity (ignorant of the deceits of Men, and un-
ufed to the fmell of powder) are as eafily taken; for if one be fhot the other take not win*-
neither knowing nor valuing danger, fuch is their care to condole their late affociates 0 -
Bats are here in great numbers-, but if my ftomach deceive me not, worfe meat cannot
betafted : a fierce ill-favour d carrion, ever fqueeking, and in offenfive noife calling to
one another, make bad melody. This is the onely four-footed Beaft that's volant, and
therefore whether more properly to be rankt amongft Birds or Beafts, as yet undecided
And in this further obfervable, That no Bird but the Bat doth urine: a rare creature*
but fo offenfive to the Orgyes, that (as Poets fay) nothing more deltroyes it than the
fmoak ot Ivy, dedicated to Facchm, Bats ? flying fifh and Seals be participles of nature
and fpecies of a doubtful kind, participating both of Bird and Beaft: thefe vefpertilios
a large foot in length hang in fwarms upon the boughs of Trees, by claws two inches W
fixed at the extream part of their wings which are above twenty inches in length their
monkey faces inthatpofture ever turning downwards ^ as I have delineated upon the
Coquo-tree a little before mentioned. For 3 w Ovid. lib. Met. upon the^m^tranf-
formation into Bats, " 1 1
— minimam pro corpore vocem
Emittunt peraguntqj leves-ftridore querelas.
Tedaque cum filvis celebrant, luceraque perofe
Node volant, feroque tenent a vefpere nomen.
Their Vnee like to their Body is jhrill and faint.
In harjh Notes uttering their fad corny taints,
Houfes and Woods they haunt, hate light, and game
In the Night time, from whence they have their Name.
We took another fifh, an Eagle-fifli I imagined it; the eyes were five quarters afunder *
irora one fin end to the other were above four yards: its mouth fo wide and teeth fo lonff
as it refembled a fmall Port-cullice; the tail alfo was very long and fmall: a Filh take
it all together rather to admire than junket on.
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