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       nay, that if he bath drunk any venome,he flall
ttCtci~.-, C<It it tip again, and recover his health. And
       when other Affies, all the world over, whether
       taule, or wild, and all other wholehooft beafts
       have, as it is faid, nor ankles , nor gall in their
       liver: Thlefe Indian Affes onely have ankles,
       and thek black, and that within, if you break
       themi, neither want they a gall; and that in
       wvifiniefre, they exceed not onely by much
       other Affes, but alfo by far both Elephants
       and Horfes. And when they come firft on the
       way, their pace is but flow at beginning, but
       then they mend it by degrees, and at length
       none can overtake them. After the females
       have brought forth, the fires very carefully
       looke to the colts, and their haunt is in the
       moft defert parts of India: when the Indians
       hunt them, they hold the colts feeding behind
       them, and fight for them: they dare meet the
       horfemen face to face, and make at them with
       their hornes. So itrong they are, there is no re-
!ifting of them, they make all yeeld, or what
will not. They break, or fo Ihatter, that it
become ufeleffe, and is quite fpoyl'd. If they
meet with horfes they rend, and tear their
fides in pieces, that their very guts fall out, fo
that horfemen are aifraid to come near them,
knowing that the approach is the utter lamen-
tabledeltrudtion, both man and horfe, they
lay finely about them with their heels. What
ever they bite, they make an utter riddance of
it. If they be once grown up , they are not to
be taken; they are killUd with darts and arrows.
Their fleflh is fo bitter, it is not to be eaten.
Philoftratus writes almoft the fame. The figure Vit. Apl~-
that we have here added, is of a wild beaft- loiL 1. 9
bodied,and eared like an Afle,armed with two
hornes, one liooting out of his noitrills, the
other about his eys;but becaufe it is not whole-
hoof d, nor one-horn'd, it cannot be the In-
dian Affe.
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