[ 30] OF THE ALLOCAMELVS.
[illustration]
The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
About this Item
- Title
- The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
- Author
- Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
- Publication
- London :: Printed by William Iaggard,
- 1607.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13820.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13820.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
Pages
[ 40]
[ 50]
Page 102
SCaliger affirmeth, that in the land of the Giants, ther is a beast which hath the heade, necke, and eares, of a Mule, but the body of a Ca∣mell; wherefore it is probable, that it is conceiued by a Camell and a Mule: the picture whereof is before sette downe, as it was taken from the sight of the beast, and imprinted with a discription at Mid∣dleborough in the yeare 1558. which was neuer before seen in Ger∣many, nor yet spoken by the Pliny.
They said that it was an Indian Sheepe, out of the region of Peru, and so was brought to Antwerpe, sixe thousand miles distant from that nation. It was a∣bout [ 10] two yardes high, and fiue foote in length, the neck was as white as any Swan: the co∣lour of his other parts was yellowish, and his feet like an Ostrige-Camels: and although it were a male, yet it did render his vrine backward: it was afterwarde giuen to the Empe∣rour by Theodoric Neus, a citizen of the nether Colen. It was a most gentle and meek beast like the Camelopardall, not past foure yeare olde: wherefore I thought good to expresse it in this place, because of the similitude it hath with the manners of the fourmer beaste, al¦though it want hornes and differ in some other members.