’Tis said of this Animal, that it casts its Skin and eats it again; and if so, ’tis a proper Emblem of desultory Creatures, who leave their Vices for a time, and return to them afterwards[258]. Footnote 258: _Grew’s Cosmologia Sacra._ Among Serpents is such Variety of charming Colours, and Figures, that if it were not for the natural Antipathy that we have for them, perhaps there is not one thing that the Eye could take greater Delight in. Besides the above Lacertick Serpents of _Brazil_, _Rochefort_[259], a _French_ Author, mentions other Serpents different from these, which come next under Consideration. Footnote 259: _History of the Antilles-Islands._ LXXXVIII. The _Les Anoles_, a Serpent in bigness like the _Gallick_ Lizards, but of a longer Head; of a yellow Skin, like a Sun-burnt _Roussilonite_, or the _Savage Man_ in the Isle of _Borneo_; Russet Back, channel’d with green; of an ashy or cineraceous Colour; a boisterous noisy Animal. It’s generally in motion by Day, and by Night, lodges in hollow places, where it joins with the Brotherhood, in disturbing the Neighbours with hideous Croakings: by the loudness of its Noise, it should seem that it had but an empty Noddle. LXXXIX. _LES ROQUET_, a Serpent of a ruddy Colour, intermix’d with black and yellow Points: of sparkling Eyes, and majestick Mien, walking in a stately manner with Head erect; and skipping about like a Bird, or a _French Beau_, who was said to make a _Solecism_ with his Hand, when he made a false Gesture on the Stage. XC. The _Maboujas_, a word that signifies a Devil in the _Indian_ Language, and given to this Serpent, because in its Nature it is most malignant and mischievous: It lives in fenny Ground, and shaded Valleys, dreadful in Appearance, and more so in its Executions. This cruel Serpent is an Emblem of the old Serpent, that great fiery Dragon, that in a few Hours reduced _Job_, a wealthy Prince, into the lowest Ebb of Poverty, converted his Palace into a Dunghill, and his Body into an Hospital of Diseases; and if permitted, he would immediately turn the Earth into a Scene of Blood and Destruction; therefore he is called απολλυωνορ, the _Destroyer_, _Rev._ ix. 11. the Murderer, and Shedder of Blood. _N. B._ The tutelar Deity of the _Cæsars_ was _Apollo_, that is, the—_Destroyer_. The like kind of bloody Deity has presided in the Temples of Tyranny ever since. XCI. The _Gobe Moujes_, so denominated by the _French_, from its _gobbling_ all kinds of Flies, which it constantly hunts, and swallows in a voracious manner. It commonly frequents Houses where it suffers no little Insects to live, no not upon Garments: It is of the stellionick form, and the least of all the Quadrupeds in those _Antilles_, which our _English_ call, the _Leeward-Islands_.