The Animal-Lore of Shakspeare's Time, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish And Insects
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. divers of which countries, islands, &c., have long sithence been discovered by others of our subjects ; to be one body politic and corporate, by the name of, the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the Bast Indies." The whole of the document, of which the above is a part, may be found in Anderson's Origin of Oommerce, already quoted. Sir John Mandeville professes to have discovered a tree whereon gourds containing little beasts like lambs were to be seen hanging in clusters... : — "And there [somewhere beyond Cathay] growethe a maner of fruyt, as thoughe it were gowrdes, and whan they ben rype, men kutten hem a to, and men fynden with inne a lytylle best, in flessche, in bon, and blode, as though it wer a lytylle lomb, with outen wolle and .men eten bothe the frut and the best ; and that is a gret marveyle. Of that frute I have eten." (Travels, p. 264.) The author proceeds to crush any doubts that might arise in his reader's mind by citing the similar develop- ment of the barnacle tree into a bird.
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