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OF THE FOURFOOTED
        from the San, having alwayes fervants, or
        other hirelings at hand to that purpofe. And
        if they are to difpatch long journies in a fhort
        time, they carry many fuch man-bearers
        about with them to take their turnes,as the reft
        are weary; by which (hifting, they ridde
        more way, then Horfes themselves. So far
        Pigafeta.
                 CHAPTER V.
                 Of tbe Elephant.
Ailr.          He  Elephant bath alfo place among
H. q. 1.4.     he whole. hoof 'dwhofe hoofthough
c.9- .         it wzay feem to be fhaped, as if he had
               toes, yet becaufe they are not cleft: I
        know not well how to flut them out from
        among the whole-footed. He hath gotten his
Nane.   name, not from his vait bulke he feeming to
Vincen. be a kind ofmountain, as Ifidore would have
Bellun.  it; but rather from the Hebrew Alaph, to
Martin. learn, he fbrpaffing all othe.r beafs in teach.
in Lexi. ableneffe: or from Eleph, an Ox, by reafon
        of his greatnefIe, Bu, being a word import-
WA.;.   ing increafe: Or, as it were i'leas, from Etas,
        a marilh, and Baino, to defcend, becaufe
        with his weight lhe makes there deep gulls; or
;A~o.  fiom Elephrairo, to hurt; or from El ' , to
        bend in , becaufe he hath an involved in bend-
aA@3'- inLg his trunk; or finally, from Aipbos, whbte,
        fince ivory, triumphs in that colour. Some call
 '£'=X him Piriffas, others fimply the monftrous
 >,9;X.  beaft, (Theria. ) The Romanes, who faw Ele-
 I-arm.c  phants firft in their warre with King Pyrrhus,
 Puilnl  call them Lucanian oxen ; whether from Lu-
        canian, where they firil faw them, or (a Luce)
        from light, becaufe they glittered a far of by
        reafon of the Princely golden fhields, where-
        with the towers on their backs were adorned.
        The Indians call him Barrus , from his voyce,
        faith Ifidore; others will have it a Sabine name,
        whence Servius thinks Ebur, Ivory bath the
        name.
Defc.pt.  We flall fhlw in the differences, their diffe-
        rent greatnefl'e. Gillius meafured one at Con-
        flantinople, that from the ey to the farther end
        of the back was eleven foot; from the ey to the
        end of his trunke, eight foot. Some of them
        are twelve foot high;fome thirteen;fome reach
        fifteen, and nine inches. Aloyrius Cadamullus
        writes, that bee faw one, that had more flei
        then five of our Bulls. They are all black, ex-
        cept the lEthiopian: yet the writers of the In-
        dian voyages reportthat the King of Narfimga
        bath a white one.
          They have a checquerd skin, or rather one
        graven with bliftered pits, and is of fuch a hard-
Caffiod. neffe, that you would take it to be of bone.
Plin.  Therefore the Moores make their bucklers of
H. H 18. it; and th- Peguans ufe it in fRead of armes: yet
        it is harder on the back, then the belly. Their
Solinrus- back-skin is extreme hard and ftubborn, their
'H N.   bellies are foft. Whether he be hairy, or no,
1I'. C. 39. Pliny himfelf knew not; He hath no briffles
        tocover him,uor can he ufe fo muchas his taile
to drive away the flies from annoying him;
Pliny fpeakes of the Elephants in fome places;
but in others,their bodies have impenetrable
briftles. Cardan faith, their skin is naked, and
gives reafon why it muft be fo. But Cadamu-
ftus teftifies that he himfelf hath pluckt blac-
kili haires two palms long out of them. Gilliat
affirms the fame length thereof Vartoman,
finally, reports ,that they have ataile like the
oxes, about ±7 inches long, with a few hairs at
the end; and in thedefcriptionofGuineawe
read that the women ufe fuch for fly flaps td
drive them from their images. Nay Pliny, as
forgeting himfelf, writes, that the Indians de-
light firangely in Emeralds, counting them on-
ly precious ftones, and had rather want gold
then them, and that they make holes in them,
and tie them in Elephants britiles.
  They have an ugly misfhapen head; and
about the temples a kind of tunnell, wliereout Plin.H I
the male fends forth a fat fluff at coupling- 39
titme; the female alfo hath the like then ope.n,
if we beleeve Strabo. Their ears are little for Gwoaj.rI
a beaft of that bulk, two hand-palms breadth Oppian.
every way, and under them is a place, where -'yn'h
you may Itrike him dead with one firoak of a  ' if
chiffell driven by a hammer. Livy thinks that
Haferubal firft found it out. Thofe among
the Sambri, an Ethiopian folk, have no ears.
Their cyes, though great, yet feem but fmall ciilj 1.6
for fo vat a body; and thofe but heavy. The C.30.
mouth in the breaft , and with that they fuck, Cadamuft
and not with the trunck; their is alfo very kliaii.
finall, and very far in, not as in other beafis, Arill
that you can hardly perceive it.  They have c. 6
foure teeth within to chew withall, befides the
tufiles that hang out, the males are crooked, Arip I
and turning again, the females teeth ftrait, and c :
hanlging downward. They have teeth fo foon
as they are brought forth, but thofc great ones#
are not fo plainly fteen; with rhofe they grind
their food as fiall as meal. They are placed
in their upper-jaw, and fomc are of an alto-
ninling greatneffe. Bartomannus faw a couple
in Sumnatra, hanging up, that weighed 3 36
pound. And Gadamuftus faw one flain,whofe
teeth exceeded 3 6 fingers bredth in greatnes,
and fficking 24 fingers bredth out. Of whofe
vaftnef1e thus Pliny. I- he greateft teeth are to
be feen in temples. But in the utmoft coa0ts of H. N.
Africk, where it borders on Ethiopia, they ufe i.s. c.io.
them in fRead of pofts in their houfes, and for
fences, and ftakes, and prope in their flalls for Poiyb.
cattell.  Gillius reports, that they wax fome- Guloui
times to ten foot length. Venetus the Mer-
chant, that one was faid to be fold for 36.
pieces of gold, being 94 inches long, and 36
inches thick; and that it was fo heavy, that he
could not lift it from the ground. Befides
Sabellicus writes, that there was at Firmus two
Elephants-teeth of that exceffive bugenefle,
that Aurelian, who conquered it,caufed them
to be carried for a miracle to Rome, and of
fuch an utnbeleeveable length. Some call thefe
Horns. How properly Aldr.and Cardan flew,
and fhall elfewhere declare; onely I defire to
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