Which often in this iland we have found.”
[35] This use of bear’s grease is about 1800 years old.
[36] From Λεοντοφονος, the Lion Killer.
[37] Written to prove that this plant was the Cotton-plant.
[38] Melons.
[39] Wonder at.
[40] Alluding to the Catoblepon (see ante, [p. 85]), and its power of killing animals and human beings with its eye. This power does not seem confined to animals, for Sir John Mandeville says:—“An other yle there is northward where there are many evill and fell women, and they have precious stones in their eies, and they have such kinde yt if they behold any man with wrath, they sley them of the beholding, as the Basalisk doeth.”