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THE NA TU RA LL HI S TO R Y
                 CHAPTER            V.
            ilbhere the Hyxnacs are bred.
1-4.    VT      Erodotus, Pliny, and Solinus write
                that many of them are bred in Africa.
        15   But our fweet Hyxna is called the
                Syrian Cat; they are brought out of
&ai.   Syria. Some arc fent from Spain. The Por.
        tugees bring them out of the Indies. A Litua-
        nian Apothecary fent a Zibet-bag, and an
        Elcks-hoof to Rome to Henry Convinus,
        writing that they were the fruits of his country;
        fo that I guefie they are bred alfo in thofe cold
        Regions.
          The American Zibeth is bred in many parts
L. Faber. there, as alfo in Eaft-India in Bengala, Ceilan,
        Sumatra, Java the greater, and lefIe, in Mali-
        put, and elfewhere.
          And in new Spain, in Quatemala,Campege,
        Nikaragua, Vera Crux, Florida,and the great
        Ifle S. Dominick, or Hifpaniola, Cuba, Ma-
        talino, Guadalupa, and elfewhere.
          In Peru is plenty, in Paraguay,Tucamam
        Chiraguanas , S. Crux de la Sierra, Yungas,
        Andes, Chiachiapojas, QuzosjTimana, Novo
        Regno, and in all the Provinces bordering on
        the great river Maragnon, which are alhnoft
        numberleffe hereabout reaching two thoufand
        leagues. Many more of them are in Brafil,
        where the Civet trade is driven. They abound
        alfo in Guinee, in the Provinces of Loango,
        Congo, Manicongo, about the rivers of An-
        gola, even to Cafres, and to the Cape of good
        HIope, efpecialy on the high , and vafl moun-
        tains tlhere,called the Craggy-fpcars,and on
FuraglU. part of the hills of Gafres, called the Torea,
       or of the Moon , where fo much Algalia
       is.
                CH A PT ER         VI.
        0f the Zibetb--peWfeli, or Civct-ba S
        Z7    Ibethl is gathered only out of one
               fmall part of the beaft, we lhall fee
               whence. It is a foul miftake, that the
I kiO Iltl.   Gazella voids Civet, as dung; nor
C'. thIIog comes it out the genitalls,but it lies thereabout.
Rl110,,j  To let paffe Columna his difcourfe of the
        tefticles (Epifl. x. ad Fabrum.) It is clear,that
BAcn'.  the Civet in the males lies between the Geni-
        tall, and the ftones. The tefficles are confpi-
        cuous in the males, and tane out, but ly hid
        within the females. In thefe between the anus,
        and the fecrets are fwellings,are bagges framed
        by nature, wherein by little and little the Zi-
        beth is gathered, and thence voided. And
        being but two, the unexperienced may miftake
        thlem for tefticles, and fome that have feen the
        beaft often, much more thofe who never faw
        it afore; fo hath ColurnDa miftaken. The Zi-
        beth part at firft fight feemes a feminine paf,
        having a long ftreak, and thick lips, which feels
        as bigge as a finall egge, grifily it is, and fome-
!w hat hard, which, if you open with your fin" s
gers a little, there fihew themfelv'es twvo very
long holes like noitrills, hfollow underneath,
where are the feats of the Zibeth. Thefe
veffells if you fquccfe out with your fingers
they open themfelves wide, and ihcW the hol-
lownefle , which may well hold an almond
kernell; in thefe bags is no pore,and no paflfge
appears,but it being cutl found a hardiflh body
as big as an egge, feeling grifcly, divided into
two bags, as big as two Spanilh olives, and
thofe not at all grilly, butfleilly,ftuffedwith
finall, white, hard kernels, much harder then
the fones; diftin6c they were thofe bags, but
joyned with thin skins, or films, and the inner
was common to both bags, which I keep Wit
by me dried, which fent yet firongly of Civet,
when the flone dried fmnell not all. And (which
is arange) the beaft beingfpent by a dropfy,
and all the bowells putrified, and it ftinking un-
fufferably as it was cut all over, only the '/1-
beth veffell fented wonderfully, and yet holds
its fragrancy.
        CHAPTER              VII.
            Of the Teaver.
S     Ince the Hiftory of the Cattor, Fiberor
     Beaver conduce'di much to the know-
1edge of the kind, and quality of the
     fweet Hyxna; we fay that the Beaver,
both Hee,& Slice have in their privities certain
receptacles,whereout,through the fmall bones,
an holny moyflure flows, which the Beaver
ufeth. to lick.  The males have befides their
tefticles l1ut wvithin under the skin fo , as you
cannot touch them,as fivine lave. Rondeletius D. f,
faith fich bumps are alfo in Hares, whence the i. de
vulgar bruit of their double fex, and he writes ~l"Ph
the like of the Mofehus, and the Beaver, that
this hath two fuch fwellings in the groyn,
each in his thin skin as big as a Goofi-cgge,
betwcetn which are the privities. Thefe fwel-
uligs iweat out a fat nioyaiure, which he licks,
and fucks out, and after annoints therewith all
lis bodies 3s fir as lie can reach. Thefe are not
telticles , for they are there befides, and thefe
have no pafage to convey, are fend forth wa-
ter. That liquour at f tt is like oylafter it is of
the colour of lilony, andtR as thick. The like isin
the Hare (faith he) andu the Molchus, whence a
fweet fubftance flows. Nor are they to be
heard , who take thefr fwellin.,s, for inflamed
puthes, or hote matter from the navell. That
the fwelling is like a kernell, or tetticle they
know, who fophifticate musk, making it utp
round in fuch a flhape, and calling it the
Mofchus-ftone But we know that the tefticles
ly fo,that you cannot take them thence,and the
beaft live. So that many beafis, as the Hyxna,
Zibeth, Caftor, and Hare, and others carry P
fweet moyfture in bags about the groyn, as 3 i
among fifhes,the Cuttle, the Calamary,and the
purple fifli.
  We grant the Mofchus to be a firange In-
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