Part 22

Men, _tailed_, 4, 5, 17; _one-eyed_, 8, 18; _with legs reversed_, 9; _with sea-green eyes_, 10, 15; _with white hair_, 10, 14, 16; _eat every other day_, 10; _those whose touch cures the sting of serpents_, 10; _saliva cures ditto_, 10; _testing the fidelity of wives by means of serpents_, 11; _possessing both sexes_, 11; _families of enchanters_, 11; _with the power of fascination in their eyes_, 12; _with two pupils in each eye_, 12; _whose bodies will not sink in water_, 12; _whose perspiration causes consumption_, 12; _the glance of women with double pupils in their eyes is noxious_, 12; _Indians never expectorate, and are subject to no pains_, 13; _Men eight feet high_, 13, 16; _with feet turned backwards, and eight toes_, 14; _with heads of dogs_, 14; _Women only pregnant once in their lives_, 14, 16; _Men with one leg_, 14, 20; _whose feet shade them from the sun_, 14, 20; _without necks, and eyes in their shoulders_, 14, 19; _large and small feet_, 15; _with holes in their faces instead of nostrils, and flexible feet_, 15; _with no mouths, who subsist by smell_, 15; _who live 400 years_, 15; _living on vipers_, 16; _with no shadow_, 16; _live to 130 years and never seem to get old_, 16; _who live 200 years_, 16; _do not live over 40 years_, 16; _who live on locusts_, 16; _Women bear children at seven years of age_, 16; _Women conceive at five years of age and die in their eighth year_, 17; _Men with ears which cover their bodies_, 17; _twelve feet high_, 17; _live on baboon’s milk_, 17; _green and yellow_, 18; _Men eating each other_, 18; _without eyes or nose_, 19; _with mouths in their shoulders_, 19; _cover their faces with their lips_, 19; _Dwarfs with no mouth_, 19; _with ears to their shoulders_, 19; _with horses’ feet_, 19; _go on all fours_, 19; _go on their knees_, 19; _live by the smell of wild apples_, 19; _covered with feathers_, 20; _Elephant-headed men_, 20; _feed on serpents and lizards_, 21; _Amazons_, 23, 24, 25, 26; _Pygmies_, 26; _their height_, 28; _Early men_, 38; _their skulls_, 38; _the Stone Age_, 38; _Bronze and Iron Ages_, 39; _Palæolithic remains in caves_, 39; _the Lake men_, 39; _early mention of them_, 39; _their food_, 41; _Kitchen middens_, 41; _their wide range_, 41; _Shell-fish middens in Tierra del Fuego_, 42, 43; _Danish middens_, 44; _Wild men_, 41; _Ancient Britons_, 46, 47; _Hairy men_, 47, 49, 50, 51; _Julia Pastrana_, 47; _Puella pilosa of Aldrovandus_, 47, 48; _Hairy people at Ava_, 49, 50; _the Aïnos of Japan_, 50, 51; _Moon Woman_, 180.

Menippus, 74, 75, 76, 152.

Menismini, _who live on baboon’s milk_, 17.

Mentor, 158.

Mercuriall, 320.

Mermen and Mermaids, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214.

Meryx, the, 253.

Midas, 58.

Milo, Titus Annius, 251.

Milroy, General, 30.

Milton, 8, 218.

Mimick Dog, the, 150, 151.

Mirage, 17.

Moa, the, 181, 183.

Mole, the, 68.

Monboddo, Lord, 5.

Monk-fish, the, 228, 229.

Monoceros. See _Unicorn_, also _Narwhal_.

Monocoli, _people having but one leg_, 14.

Monster, a, 173.

Moon Woman, 180.

Mormolicæ. See _Lamia_.

Morse, the. See _Walrus_.

Moses Chusensis, 166.

Mucianus, 253.

Müenster, Sebastian, 177.

Murex, the, 253, 254.

Musculus, the, 226.

Myrepsus, 132, 134.

N.

Narwhal, the, 244, 245.

Nasomenes, _the tribe of_, 11.

Nebuchadnezzar, 78.

Nemæan Lion, 64.

Nereids, 210.

Niam Niams, 5.

Nicander, 302.

Nisus, the, 70.

Nymphæ, _a name for Satyrs_, 57.

Nymphodorus, 11.

O.

Oannes, _or Hea_, 206, 207, 208, 209.

Obadja, Rabbi, 167.

Octopus. See _Kraken_.

Odoricus, Friar, 170, 175.

Œdipus, 64, 65.

Olaus Magnus. See _Magnus, O._

Onisecritus, 16.

Onocentaur, the, 56, 83.

Ophiogenes, 10.

Oppianus, 99, 119.

Orca, the, 239, 240, 241.

_Osborne_, the Royal Yacht, 276, 277.

Ostridge or Estridge, 148, 197, 198.

Ouran Outan, the, 51, 52.

Ourani Outanis, 4.

Ovid, 140.

Owl, the, 70.

Oxen and Wolves, 137, 138.

P.

Pan, the, _a satyr_, 55, 57.

Pan, the Sea, 212.

Pandore, _live two hundred years_, 16.

Panther, the, 162.

Paradise, Birds of, 190, 191.

Parkinson, John, 168.

Pastrana, Julia, _a hairy woman_, 47.

Pausanias, 65.

Pelican, the, 200, 201.

Pegasus, the, 159.

Pergannes, 16.

Peter, the wild boy, 45.

Peter Martyr, 4.

Petronius, 140.

Phalangium, the, 68, 70, 161.

Pharnaces, _a tribe whose perspiration causes consumption_, 12.

Philostratus, 58.

Phœnix, the, 183, 184, 185, 186.

Pholus, _the Centaur_, 80.

Phylarcus, 12.

Physeter, the, 215, 216, 217.

Pierius, 302.

Pitan, _a tribe living on the smell of wild apples_, 19.

Pithocaris, 139.

Plato, 194.

Plesiosaurus, the, 300, 301.

Pliny, 5, 7, 8, 9, 17, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 53, 57, 67, 72, 81, 86, 87, 88, 105, 124, 127, 131, 133, 140, 148, 158, 161, 183, 193, 198, 199, 204, 210, 239, 242, 251, 253, 256, 264, 267, 285, 286, 287, 288, 306, 313, 318, 324, 327, 329, 330, 332.

Plutarch, 151, 281.

Polydamna, 286.

Polypus, the. See _Kraken_.

Poæius, Paulus, 95.

Pomponius, Mela, 140.

Pontoppidan, Erik, 261, 270.

Ponzettus, 154.

Pope, Alex., 26.

Postdenius, 282.

Prister, the, 215, 220.

Psylli, _a race whose saliva cures the sting of serpents_, 10.

Pterodactyl, the, 302.

Ptolemy, 5.

Ptolemy, King, 151.

Purchas, _his Pilgrimage_, 29, 177.

Pygmies. See _Dwarfs_.

Pygmæogeranomachia, _a poem on the battle between the Pygmies and the Cranes_, 26.

Pyrallis, the, 70. See also _Salamander_.

Pyrausta. See _Salamander_.

Pyrrhus, King, _His right great toe cured diseases of the spleen_, 13.

R.

Rabbit, the, 68.

Rasis, 156.

Raven, the, 69, 70, 163.

Ravenna, _Monster at_, 173, 174.

Ravisius, Textor, 180.

Ray, the, 255.

Rayn, the, 197.

Regnerus, 294, 295.

_Reineke Fuchs_, 126.

Remora, the, 253, 254.

Rhinoceros, 89, 97, 98, 99, 100.

Robinson, Phil, 129.

Rodocanakis, 188, 189.

Rondeletius, 227.

Rosmarus, the. See _Walrus_.

Rossamaka, the. See _Gulo_.

Ruc, Rukh, or Rok. See _Griffin_.

S.

Sahab, the, 247.

St. John, Mr., 5.

Salamander, 323, 324, 325, 326.

Salusbury, John, 300.

Sargon, 209, 268.

Satyr, the, 14.

Satyr, _the classical_, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60.

Satyrs, 55, 56, 61, 62.

Saw Fish, the, 239.

Saxo, 33, 34, 177.

Scaliger, 131, 317, 321.

Scarus, the, 253.

Schilt-bergerus, 284.

Sciapodæ, _men whose feet shade them from the sun_, 14.

Scirti, _a name for Satyrs_, 57.

Scorpion, the, 69, 330, 331, 332.

Scott, Sir Walter, 270, 271.

Scyritæ, _a tribe in India with holes in their faces instead of nostrils, and flexible feet_, 15.

Sea Animals, various, 231.

Sea Calves, 116, 232, 233.

Sea-Cow, the, 232.

Sea Demon, 212.

Sea Dragon, the, 256.

Sea Hare, 132, 234.

Sea-Horse, the, 233, 234.

Seamew, the, 70.

Sea-Mouse, the, 234.

Sea-Nettle, the, 259, 260.

Sea-Pig, the, 235.

Sea Rhinoceros, the. See _Narwhal_.

Sea Satyr, 212.

Sea Serpent, the, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277.

Sea Unicorn, the. See _Narwhal_.

Seal, the. See _Sea Calves_.

Segonius, 321.

Seneca, 313.

Sennacherib, 209.

Seræ, _who live four hundred years_, 15.

Serpeda de Aqua, 291.

Serpents, _bite of, cured by men’s saliva_, 10; _ditto by odour of men_, 11; _test of fidelity of wives_, 11; _destroy strangers_, 69; _war with Weasels and Swine_, 70; _killed by Spiders_, 71; _and Cats_, 154, 155, 156; _and Mice_, 156; _and Lions_, 156; _cure for bite of_, 161; _take medicine_, 162; _the Indian, a kind of whale_, 226, 227; _and Crabs_, 267, 268; _charming them_, 278, 279; _their loves_, 280, 281; _talking_, 281; _size_, 281, 282; _their coldness_, 283, 284; _pugnacity_, 284, 285; _their antipathies_, 285, 286, 287; _as medicine_, 288, 289.

Servius, 171.

Sextus, 134, 138.

Shrew mouse, the, 68, 70.

Shu-Maon, _a hairy man_, 49.

Sicinnis, Sicinnistæ, _a name for Satyrs_, 57.

Sidetes, 140.

Sileni, _a name for Satyrs_, 56, 57.

Simeon, Rabbi, 166, 167, 168.

Simia Satyrus, the, 52, 53, 54, 56.

Simiinæ, the, 51.

Simocatus, 286.

Sindbad the Sailor, 218.

Siren, the, 172, 173.

Sluper, John, 7, 45, 65, 229.

Snow Birds, 191, 192, 193.

Solinus, 58, 313.

Solyman, Sultan, 96.

Somerville, Sir John, 298, 299, 300.

Sow, 135, 136.

Spenser, 88, 158, 312.

Spermaceti Whale, the, 222.

Sphyngium, the, 53.

Sphynx or Sphynga, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 159.

Spider, the, 69, 70, 71.

Sponges, 260, 261.

Spratt, 171.

Stag, the, 68, 69, 163.

Stanley, H. M., 31, 32.

Starchaterus Thavestus, _a giant_, 33, 34, 35.

Steingo, _a name for a Gorgon_, 85.

Stheno, 85.

Sting-ray, the, 256, 257.

Stork, the, 162, 200, 201.

Stow, John, 231.

Strabo, 314.

Struthpodes, _a tribe with small feet_, 15.

Stumpsius, 308.

Su, the, 163, 164, 165.

Suidas, 65, 146.

Swallow, the, 161, 186, 187, 188, 189.

Swamfisck, the, 245, 246, 247.

Swan, the, 69, 193, 194.

Swine, 70, 148, 156.

Swordfish, the, 238, 239.

Sylla, 58.

Syrbotæ, _men twelve feet high_, 17.

T.

Tantalus apples, 75.

Tauron, 15.

Tavernier, 191.

Tennent, Sir J. E., 213.

Teüfelwal, the. See _Trol Whale_.

Thenestus, 163.

Theophrastus, 106, 118, 119.

Thibii, _a tribe having two pupils to each eye_, 12.

Thos, the, 71.

Thresher-Whale, the. See _Orca_.

Tiles, _shower of baked_, 251.

Toad, the, 326, 327, 328.

Topazos, _a beautiful stone_, 21, 22.

Topsell, Edward, 53, 55, 66, 74, 83, 91, 92, 94, 97, 99, 104, 127, 131, 145, 146, 154, 163, 270, 278, 282, 288, 289, 291, 302, 306, 308, 312, 313, 317, 325, 326, 327, 331.

Tortoise, the, 161.

Traconyt, _a beautiful stone_, 21.

Tragi. See _Sponges_.

Tranquillus, 147.

Trebius, the, 252.

Trebius Niger, 254, 264, 266.

Triballi, _a tribe having the power of fascination with their eyes_, 12.

Triorchis, the, _a hawk_, 70.

Trispithami, _a race three spans high_, 27.

Trithemius, 144.

Tritons, 65, 210.

Trochilus, the, 70, 201, 202.

Troglodytæ, _dwellers in caves_, 14; _their swiftness_, 17; _their remains_, 20; _feed on serpents and lizards_, 21; _their commerce_, 22.

Trol Whale, the, 217.

Trygon, the. See _Sting-ray_.

Turtles, _horned_, 23.

Turtle-dove, the, 70.

Tytiri, _a name for Satyrs_, 56.

Tzetzes, 93.

U.

Unicorn, the, 74, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97. See also _Rhinoceros_.

Urchin, the, 128.

V.

Valentyn, 213.

Varinus, 64.

Varro, 10.

Versipellis. See _Were Wolves_.

Vespasian, 151.

Vielfras, the. See _Gulo_.

Villanonanus, Arnoldus, 287.

Vipers, _flesh of, causing longevity_, 16.

Virgil, 140.

Vishnu, 209.

Volateran, 282.

W.

Wallace, A. R., 52.

Walrus, the, 235, 236, 237, 238.

Wantley, Dragon of. See _Dragons_.

Wasp, the, 70.

Weasel, the, 68, 70, 163.

Webbe, Edward, 250.

Webber, _Romance of Natural History_, 30.

Were Wolves, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144.

Whale, the, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227.

Whale, _the hairy_, 226.

Whaup, the. See _Lapwing_.

Whirlpool, the, 215, 220.

Williams, Edward, 189.

Woodcock, the, 69.

Wolf, the, 68, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 148.

Wolff, G. E., 31.

Wolverine, the. See _Gulo_.

Wood, E. J., _book on Giants and Dwarfs_, 29.

Wood, W. Martin, 50.

“Wormes.” See _Dragons_.

X.

Xenophon, 86.

Y.

Youle, Captain Henry, 49.

Z.

Zahn, Joannes, 4, 144, 165, 173, 248.

Zaidu, 79.

Zebra, 146, 147.

Ziphius, the, 238, 239.

Zoophytes, 259, 260.

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Transcriber's Notes.

Punctuation has been standardised, and simple typographical errors have been repaired. Hyphenation, quotation mark usage, and obsolete/variant spelling have been preserved as printed. Characters printed superscript in the original book are here preceded by the caret symbol.

Page 62, beasts => breasts (having the breasts of women)

Page 87, eartd => earth (downeward to the earth)

Page 135, nor => not (for they spare not man nor beast)

Page 141, Greeks => Greek (from two Greek words)

Page 230, tiltre => titre (hōneur et titre)

Page 262, added "the" (On the next page is a huge calamary)

Page 337, Abamiron => Abarimon

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