Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (14948488443).jpg CURIOUS CREATURES 313 <br> say came from the Coliseum at Rome and was then in <br> the Vatican <br> Topsell in his History of Serpents dwells lovingly <br> and lengthily on the crocodile He says Some have <br> written that the Crocodile runneth away from a man if <br> he winke with his left eye and looke steadfastly uppon <br> him with his right eye but if this bee true it is not <br> to be attributed to the vertue of the right eye but <br> onely to the rarenesse of sight which is conspicuous to <br> the Serpent from one eye The greatest terrour unto <br> Crocodiles as both Seneca and Pliny affirme are the <br> inhabitants of the He Tentyrus within Nilus for those <br> people make them runne away with their voyces and <br> many times pursue and take them in snares Of these <br> people speaketh Solinus in this manner There is a <br> generation of men in the He Tentyrus within the waters <br> of Nilus which are of a most adverse nature to the <br> Crocodile dwelling also in the same place And <br> although their persons or presence be of small stature <br> yet heerein is theyr courage admired because at the <br> suddaine sight of a Crocodile they are no whit daunted ; <br> for one of these dare meete and provoke him to runne <br> away They will also leape into Rivers and swimme 23575068 76213 32031 Page 313 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23575068 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John NameFound Nilus NameConfirmed Nilus EOLID 113018 NameBankID 4258720 NameFound Solinus NameConfirmed Solinus EOLID 109710 NameBankID 2696680 Biodiversity Heritage Library Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23575068 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23575068 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14948488443 2015-08-25 20 54 02 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |