OF THE MANTICHORA.

THis beast or rather Monster (as Ctesias writeth) is bred a∣mong the Indians, hauing a treble rowe of teeth beneath and aboue, whose greatnesse, roughnesse, and feete are like a Lyons, his face and eares like vnto a mans, his eies gray, and collour red, his taile like the taile of a Scorpion of the [ 10] earth, armed with a sting, casting forth sharp pointed qui•ls, his voice like the voice of a small trumpet or pipe, being in course as swift as a Hart; His wildnes such as can neuer be tamed, and his appetite is especially to the flesh of man. His body like the body of a Lyon, being very apt both to leape and to run,* so as no distance or space doth hinder him, and I take it to bee the same Beast which Auicen calleth Marion, and Maricomorion, with her taile she woundeth her Hunters whether they come before her or behind her, and presently when the quils are cast forth, new ones grow vp in their roome, wherewithal she ouercommeth all the hunters: and al∣though India be full of diuers rauening beastes, yet none of them are stiled with a title of Andropophagi, that is to say, Men-eaters; except onely this Mantichora. When the Indi∣ans [ 20] take a Whelp of this beast, they all to bruise the buttockes and taile thereof, that so it may neuer be fit to bring sharp quils, afterwards it is tamed without peril. This also is the same beast which is called Leucrocuta about the bignesse of a wilde Asse, being in legs and hoofes like a Hart, hauing his mouth reaching on both sides to his eares, and the head & face of a female like vnto a Badgers. It is called also Martiora, which in the Persian tongue signifieth a deuourer of men, and thus we conclude the story of the Hyaena for her descrip∣tion, and her seuerall kindes now followeth the medicines arising out of her seuerall partes.