Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan ... As also, many ... kingdoms in the oriental India ... (1677)
Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682 · London : R. Everingham for R. Scot, etc. · leaf 28
Bird having a fmell equal to the Vulture, after battels have been noted to flv fome hundreds of miles by fcent to prey upon the Carcaifes here alfo are ftore ol thofe beautiful Birds called Paflc-flemingos, and may be the fame which by the Ara¬ bians is named Rachama, avis qua rubras habet alas ,… … The Natives being propagated from Cham, both in their Vifages and Natures feemto inherit his malediction', their ftature is but indifferent, their colour olevafter or that fort of black we fee the Americans that live under the ^Equator •, their faces be very thin, their limbs well proportioned, but…
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