. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ,,|i'f'i:Ri:;]nH A toefcription of the I 1 â i 11 111 . i;;:'l'' 1 â > 1 i ^ ;^'. CilliVin- docb. Woey er G)Zcl!o. Qii;o«//o^, are much cfteem'd ; the natives will not allow them to be kiil'd, being of opinion that they pre- lagc good or bad luck, according to the time they happen to meet them on the ro
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ,,|i'f'i:Ri:;]nH A toefcription of the I 1 â i 11 111 . i;;:'l'' 1 â > 1 i ^ ;^'. CilliVin- docb. Woey er G)Zcl!o. Qii;o«//o^, are much cfteem'd ; the natives will not allow them to be kiil'd, being of opinion that they pre- lagc good or bad luck, according to the time they happen to meet them on the road, 'i'his animal is no bigger than a large frog, generally of a pale moufe-colour, tlie (kin almoft tranfparent, and therefore it eafily receives the impreHion of colours fet about it: which has given otcafion to report it Book II (StmiUtn. changes colour every moment. It feeds on flies, which it dexteroufly catches with its long (harp tongue ; and lays eggs like the lizards, Ihakcs, tortoifes, and fnails, not covered with a (liell, but with a thick foft fiediy matter. Tlie Kquoggelo is an amphibious animal, kquoj. about fix foot long, much of the ihape ofgrio. a crocodile, which by means of its very large tongue, feeds upon pilmires, haunting .about their nefts ; and, like the crocodile, its body is all over cover'd with large hard fcalcj, impenetrable to any weapon. It de- fends it felf from other voracious beafts, and efpecially from the , by fetting up its fcales, which are pointed (harp at the end. The civet-cat is here very common. ThisCn«.f4. animal is accounted of the fpccies of cats, but I think it may be rather reckon'd a- mong that of wolves; being almoft of the fame form and (hape, and having like the wolf a bone on each fide of its ribs, which hinders it from turning (hort, as it is with the wolf. It a long pointed muzzle like the fox, fhort ears, (harp nofe, and pointed teeth, the hair of a grey colour, fpotted black every where, as well as it
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