and osu'cÊ' nftore when we eoï^&fër another African creature-, called
jas Meriöv'j df whichc©d®ard Dapper, in bis Delcripfioa- of
Africa; p. '$£§■, gh^es thd-fe^d-wwg -aeeèi«&.i--;
“ In the woods- of the kfögdöftt of ‘Angola*, or Dong»,- we- find
an animat called Cfuoyas-Morrsv, th a t'-1^ the Wood-man; it is
aS&'OKtt with- in Qfflsya; and in Btemo : i t greatly refembles
fisanyassd hence i t i^fifcBeved fey i^ n y ; thatif^has been'próduèed
fiem the intercourfe between a man and an apey^or ab* afpe and? a
womarf. A creature of tfik fere was feme years agobr&hgbt-tfes
Holland, and préfented to prederic-Henry, prince of Orange. It
■was a's tall as a child of’^feree years old, and as corpulent as óne
of fix : f£ Wis fferongly bbiltydhlooth' before, hut roüghyènd
overgrown with black hai-rs behind. The countenance Of this
animal refeöiblêd that of a man ; the nole was flat, the-ears like
höfiïafl éafO ; it had two preUïf&èr&M’breafts, and'al l ifts
limbs like- thofeef the human Ipecites ; as elbows; hands; legs,
Calves o f the legs; and aiMes'.^ITt feeqdeptfy walked èëëét,; iam
could take u p a heavy weight, and bear it away: • WfeMt-Wëöfrtèd
drink, it fixed one hand to the bottom of a tankard;’alia with the
other took hold of- the lidv s ld
I t laid its head regularly «poé’ a pillow, when inclined to fleep-,
aöd covered ftfelf carefully with the bed- cloaths; fo tb£é :a8jjr 'pee*
fêö would have fwetë that a man was fleeping in the "placed I t
la reported, that thefe animals at tack an# ïasêflt wómeïi,{in # that
they {ótnéfimes fall upon armed men. : Upon the whole, this animal
appears to be the Satyr of the ancients.”
S E C ,T. ÏW
If we will not allow ou# Norvegian Hasft'romber the honourable
Möië of Mer-man, we may very Well call fit' the Sea-ap’é, ■ or the
Sea-Quoyas Morrov, elpecialiy as the author already quoted pre-
Meer-Minne. fently after fays, fii p. 5 84, £C That in the Sea of Angola Mermaids
aro fiequently cateh’d, Which refemble<the hAman fpëdfes; They
are taken in nets, and k illd by the uegrois,; and are; fte^rd to
ihriek and cry like women. The inhabitants on that coaft eat
their flefh, being, rery..fond o£.it, which they lay is much like
pork in tafie. -The ribs of thefe animals, are reckoned a . good
fty p tie; and a certain bone in the head, which feparates the brain,
haftenus eruere potui, unde homo a fimia internofcatur. Dantur enim aliciibi terrarum
fimiae, minus quam homo pilot®, ere$:c> :corpore., binis seque ac ille pedibus inee-
dentëSj S t pedum & manuum mmimSig^ humanam referëntes lpeciem, prorlus ut
'eöfdèm jitö höminum quöpiam genëfévènditarint peregirinatorum rudiorcs. Loquela
qüidem, "&c. — —- veram base quasdam eft pdtentia, vel certe '•effeiftus,' non
nota charafteriftica. Carol. Linnaeus in Praefat. Faunae Suecicse, p. 2.
is
is faid to be a powerful remedy againft the ftone.’’ I fhall add to
all t h p a & g|Lrel a t ing "tc^jthia dujpjq^l;, w(hich may be met
with under the article Meer-mann, p. 658, in the Uruyerfal.Dictionary
of Arts and,jScienees, publifhed by John Theodore, Jablon-
Iky : (J Meer-mgn, -Meer-weib, Meer-minne,’ thatjs, Sea-man,, Mermaid
jB'Siten,f called By the Indians Ambi(ia%gulp,, other wife Pe,i
iiengorlii,! and by the Portuguese« Pe^iz Mugeripjafj?i£tiforind in th e :
leas, and in. feme rivers in'the? Southern parts of Africa and India,, a hd
in the-Pbi’lipirie and M'o'liicla ’Inlands,,iBrafil, NorthiAmerica, and
Europe,’-i^ih&'NorthSqa . The leng^.af^thisEiihdsspjghftlpans; jts
head isvoyaL and the face refembles1'th a t hCa man. It jMsyap, high,
forehead, little eyes, a flMnofejj.and, large mouth, but has nothin,
.©r.earsSjt has two arms,.Which are Ihort, but without joints or.el-
bows,( with hands o r paws, tq each of, which the|0,ja,re Jour (long
fingers-fcwhich are ifflf. vQry.fiexibIel ,cppj^et|iedc.kto each othier, by ,a.
m em b ra n e ,J i^ tn a to f tneloot m a goofe.' Their fex is diftinguilh-
able bV ’-the' parf3|p’f -generation. The ^females. ha.ve breafta,to
the upper,, part ^ v6h©i%,bddy . re-
feip.bles that, of the human Ipecies, and the -.lower part that of, a
Pilh. -Their Ikinhs-ofa brownilh grey coIour51and• their!infieftines
^re like thofe-^of-a hog.- ,Their flelh is as fat -al, pork,.particn>A
larly the upper parts of' their, bodies, ; and this.is, a favourite dilh
With the Indians,, Ttoiled upon a Gridiron. It makep,a>lamqntable
cry When drawn-out of;the y^iterv There-fs,, a .bope Jn ihe head
tfiaf jdbddhsr'ffebrain, which the Portuguefe vp.oWd^rvand.Tay is,
of great feryipe in tjie Rone and gravel.- Accounts, of thelcatching,
of thefe Sea p^Mer-men. in Europe are delivered ^yjoWorniiuSj,
Cnkoardino, Mexia, Seybold, Eralinus, Fr^ncifeus, and others«^
i^Atnanafius,' Circh^t: gives this dpfeription pfothe PezX-muggr,T
in his third book .dp; Magnete, ^ ’yi^-c. i. ^ .,6 ,p .6 y 5 „ “ Gapitur
certis temporibu^ anni in mari orienfali lndiEe, ad infedas ^l&yas,c
quas infulas PjiSiortim .vocant, fub Hilpannorum dominio .pilcjs
quidanjif g^wyo/^of®??, i. e. hqmana prorlus figura, quem ideo Pezze,
Muger vocan'ty ab indigenis D.n.yor. ^ .Caputi habet,,rptundum
nulla colli intercapedine trunci compacium,'extrem«'aurium fibrae,
quae & auricul® ncffninantur^; ex cartilaginea carne eleganter W k
uitae,‘quar.um interior, pars, ampliffimis fortnajta anfradtibiis, veram.
hominis refert aurem, oqulos fuis ornatos palpebris,.lituqne &
colore non pifcis fed hominjs, judicares. Nafe,,foonnihil oberra,!,
malaminter utrgtpque nonvuilqiieqaaque, eminet, fed levi traimte
bipartitur, fub eo vero labra magnitudine fpeciequej nofiri^JimU-
lima, dentium, non.quales mfunt pifeium generi ferratilium, fed
planorftm & candidimmorum> continua feries. Pe^us alba cu,te
Pa r t IL C £ c * * con-1