'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎289] (336/506)

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had the fame waving towards the Extremity of their feveral Mem- Chap. Vlf.
bers; but that which was the oddeft was on the Forehead, they had
fo many Geometrial Figures, like the Trapezium, or Square, in which
the oppofite fides are parallel one with another, fo diftindfcly painted,
as at laft to fill up a black fpotof a Diamond cut in the very Centre
of the Face.
What Family to mix this Kind with, I am at a lofs, unlefs they
be a-kin to the Onager, or Wild Afs, mentioned by Xenophon in the
Expedition of the Lefler Cyrus; the fame we read in Pliny in his
8. Lih. and 4 th Chap, where he afcribes them to Fhrygia and Lycao-
nia ; but the Words of the before recited Author have it thus; ' The
* Onager is a Wild Afs, excelling at pleafure the fwifteft Courier;
* whofe Flefti differs not much from Stags Flelh, were it not fome-
* thing tenderer; Arabia^ fays he, abounds with Flocks of them.
Now nothing can be Tamer than thefe before us, and therefore un
likely to be the Wild ones of Xenophon in Arabia y but are moft allu
red ly the Breed of Africa; however Petrus Angelius Bargaus comes
pretty near the Mark in this, though not the other; however he is
miftaken in the Place, as well as the Race of both:
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Cornua^ venantem quoties fugiere; fuisque
Temp or thus ft ant longce Aures, turn Corpora Cervos
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As oft as Hunted lhakes the ground;
Upon their Temples (land long Ears,
Bodies bigger than Stags are theirs;
A Woolly Hair, of colour White, 1
Outihines the mixture of black Night.
Along the Back, and down the Loins,
A Lift of Black the White disjoins ;
The fame accompanies the Haunch,
Diftinguifhing the Flanks from Paunch.
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Hence we were carried to the Ducking Ponds^ where Swam Out-
landifli, as well as Native Wild Fowl; and thence to the Aviaries ^
where Nature prefents not only divers Species, but (he has plaid the .
Wanton, even in diverfifying thofe of the lame Kind, either adding
or diminiflung, as (he was.provided with Matter; fome Birds having
more Feet, Wings, or Bills, than belongs to the wonted Frame of /
the fame fort ; others again, are deficient in the Parts ufually be
llowed on the Individuals of the lame Race, fome exceeding, and
others wanting in Stature. But thefe being accounted Monftrous
and out of the Road, I lhall forfake them to follow a Couple of long
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