Of the ALBORACH and AXIS.
THere are two other beasts to be added to the end of this rank, namely the Alborach among the Turks, being a fair white beast like an Asse, whereupon the Turkish Priests blasphemous idoia∣ters, perswade the silly Pilgrims of Mecha, that Mahomet was carryed up to heaven. The Axis, of which Pliny speaketh, is a wilde beast, having a skin like the Hinnulus aforesaid, but spred over with whiter spots, which is bred in India. Bellonius affirmeth, that he saw two of them in the Castle of Cair, a male and a female, and either sex wanted horns, having long tails down to their mid-legs like Deer, and differ very little from Deer, saving in their large white spots and yellow colour, yeelding a much more clear and sounding voice then a Deer, and the female thereof is smaller then the male. This beast is by idolatrous people, dedicated to their drunken god Bacchus.