The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey : (1649)
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, Spiegel, Adriaan van de, 1578-1625. Aggeiologia : or, A description of the vessels in the body of man · London : Printed by Richard Cotes, and Willi: Du-gard, and are to be sold by John Clarke · leaf 727
climbes trees, andlives there more frequently then up-on the ground, the tail is no longer then the bredth of three fingers^ . It, is ftrangc and al-moft monftrous that thefe |cinde of creatures have never been feen to feed upon,or eat aniething: for the Salvages have kept them long in their houfes… … I have taken this following monfter out of leos African hiftorie; it is verie deformecl,bc-ipg round after the manner of a Tortoifj two yellow lines croffmg each other at right an-gles, divide his back ;ateverie end of which hee hath one eie, and alfo one ear, fo that fiicha creature may fte on…
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