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IN the years of the world .3640. or néere therabout, Alexander ye great entring India with a great army, amōg diuers strange assalts amōg wild beasts & serpents, a beast of a strange kind ap∣peared greater then an Elephant, armed with thrée hornes, in his forehead, & ha∣uing a head of a blacke coulour, like a horse, the Indians tearme ye said beast O∣donta, & when he had dronke, he behold∣ing the tentes, sodeinelye settle vppon
the Souldiers, with great vyolence, nei∣ther was he driuen backe with the heat of the fire that was before him, At the ouerthrow of the sayd straunge & fierce beast, 36. souldiers were slaine, and 53. sauchenets or swords of that time were quite marred, and with much adoe, at length, the beast being deadly wounded dyed. Lucostenes de Prodigijs in fo. 99 in the Cro. of the Dome. fol. 66. Bat.)