ABSTRACT
I do ra ther approve the relation of another of this kinde, which was fen t un to me by tha t moft learned Fnglifh Phyfician Iohn Cay, which as he wr i te th un to me, was brought in the year 1561. o u t o f the Coun t r ey of Mauritania , which was cloven-footed, and liveth for the mof t par t m the Mounta in parts of tha t Coun t r ey , being in quant i ty betwixt a fa l low-Deer and ä H a r t , the bofly more like a Ha r t , and the fide branded and hanging d o w n : a {horter and thick neck, t he colour in the Win t e r black, and red , fet one with a n o t h e r ; the beard like a G o a t , but more divided and t u rned backward i his hair very long, even t o his knees, a mane full of brift les, ftretched ou t ki l eng th t h r o u g h his whole n e c k , but efpecially about the t op of his (houlder-blades, where it ftandeth like bunches, being in colour darker then in o ther parts of the body 5 and the hinder legs a re covered with longer and harder hairs down t o the paftern, (as I think ) for no o ther caufe b u t t o defend them f rom harm in his l eap ing : and the hoof of this beaft was more ftrange ( for being cloven, as was faid before) the outward hoof in his fore-legs is longer and greater then the inward, and cont rary in the h inde r : and the inward clove thereof is longer and greater , and the outward A fecret in the fmaller and l h o r t e r ; fo as on either fide you would think one of them was the hoof o f a G o a t , hoof, and the o the r of a Ha r t , both of them hollow and wi thout foa ls ; whereof l e a n give n o o the r r e a f o n , then t he pleafure of na ture , which ha th fo provided, tha t whereas this beaft liveth among t h e rocks, and {harp places o f the Mountains, his foot-f teps are by his hol low hoofs more f i rm and liable, becaufe by tha t means, the ftones and (harp-pointed rocks en t re th into them t o ftay them lip f r o m Hiding: but it is more ftrange in the females hoofs , for they have upon the t o p and upper face o f them three o r four pleafant impreil ions, (as it were of carved or imbroydered flowers, if a man mark them earneftly ) which I think are given un to them only for o rnamen t and delight.
