by Habit, Language, Favour, nor Behaviour. At length, all generally were commanded to ascend an high Tower, where (not unlike as the Gileadites served the Ephramites) a Sheep being set before them they were compelled to name it: so being di∣stinguished, (the Name differing in their Dialect) they were thrown down head-long. The Genoa's ha∣ving after taken certain of their Gallies, wherein were the Prime of their Gentry, in Revenge of that Cruelty, caused them to be cut in pieces and drest like Tunny, nailing their hands to the bottom with Scedules of Time containing their Names, and so sent it thither to be sold; who bought, and had al∣most devoured it all before it was discovered. And indeed it is said that this Tunny doth in taste much resemble Flesh, as also in colour and solidity; so as it is reported how certain Merchants being bound to serve the French Army at the Siege of Naples, with so many Tun of Tunny, and not able to per∣form it, hearing of a late fought Battel in Barbary, repaired to the place, and supplied the quantity with man's Flesh, dress'd in the same manner; which proved so over-high a feeding (most easily convert∣ing into the like) that their Bodies broke forth into loathsome Ulcers, and from that Infection the Dis∣ease that taketh from them the name. And Scalliger in his 181 Exercise upon Cardan, and the 19 Secti∣on, doth also affirm, that it proceeded not origi∣nally from the Impurity of Women, but from Con∣traction; and that the Spaniards did first transport these rare Wares from the Indians, as common among them as the Measels amongst us, and equal∣ly contagious: which seemeth to confirm the for∣mer Assertion, they having been Man-eaters for the most part.