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[391.] Ibid., 187.

[392.] Ibid.

[393.] Theatr. Ins., p. 125. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 988.

[394.] St. John’s Man. and Cust. of Anct. Greeks, iii. 95.

[395.] Diod. Sic. Hist., L. III. c. 2. Booth’s Trans., 170–1.

[396.] Strabo. Geog., L. XVI. c. 4, § 13.

[397.] Nat. Hist., xi. 26. Holl. Pt. I. p. 325. E. Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist., xi. 29.

[398.] Rob. Journal, p. 172.

[399.] Ibid., p. 228.

[400.] Jackson’s Morocco, p. 104.