ABSTRACT
The fimihtude both in proportion and quantity holdeth with a Hart in the feet which are cloven, and that the female thereof doth want horns. The horns of the male are like the horns of a Roe. Therefore howfoever fome have imagined that there is no fuch beaft to be found in the wor ld , they are rather to be pitied then confuted, for it is not to be doub ted , that neither the Ancients, nor o ther , ever have feen all the divers and marvailous fhapes of Beafts, which are to be found in many remote and far diftant places of the world, efpecially in Arabia and India, where are many Defer t s ; and therefore the reafon why they affirm this, is, becaufe they never [aw any fuch, and fo it is to be underf tood: for the rare pi&ures of thefe beafts called in ancient time Canatbra, whereupon children were carried in Pageants and fhews, gave them occafion to th ink , that thefe were but mens devifes, and that God never ordained fuch creatures. Georgius Fabritius which fent me this p idure , doth among other things write unto me very probabjy, that this kinde is only diftinguifhed f rom other in form, name, and ftrength, and not in kinde: and this being more ftrange and lefs known
Of the parts, among men, was called by the Grecians, Tragelaphus; being greater then the vulgar Deer, deeper oftheGoun-haired, and blacker in colour, and this (faith he) is taken in the Ridings or Forref tsof M\fena% t r i e s of this bordering upon Bohemia, and the common fort of hunters hold opinion, that by reafon it loveth beaft. to lie where Coals are made, and in their duft, feeding upon fuch grafs as groweth in thofe places,
that therefore the Germans call i t Brandbirze, and fo the Foxes which refemble them in colour , are called Brandfufche.
