In _Ceylon_ in the _East-Indies_, they have many Species of Serpents; as, XXIII. The _Pimbera Serpent_, whose Body is said to be as big as a Man’s Middle, and in Length proportionable. The Creatures of this Kind secure their Prey, even horned Beasts (which sometimes are pretty large) by a sort of a Peg, or _pointed Hook_, that grows upon the Extremity of the Tail: They are slow in Motion, and therefore skulk in hollow Places; and when they have taken the Spoil, tho’ horned, they swallow it alive, and whole; which often proves fatal, because the Horns may gore the Belly. More, further on. XXIV. The _Noya Serpent_ is another ill-natur’d _Indian_, about four Foot long, will stand with its Body half upright two or three Hours together, thereby displaying an Air of Majesty: The Inhabitants call it the _King’s Snake_. Their Poison in that Part of the Country operates variously: Some after they are bitten, fall into a profound Sleep, and without speedy Help die in about six Hours time: Others grow distracted, and if neglected die in twenty-four Hours, and bleed at all the Pores of the Body, and are irrecoverable: Of which before[191]. Footnote 191: _Atlas Geogr. Asia._ XXV. The _Polonga Serpent_ is five or six Foot long, and a most venemous Creature, destroying all manner of Animals that fall within its Circuit, as well as Men, Women and Children. When the _Noya_ and _Polonga_ Serpents happen to meet, a bloody Battle ensues; they fight till one be kill’d, and then the Conqueror eats up the slain. XXV. The _Cobres Capellos_, Sea-serpents from eight to ten Yards long, are most dangerous Beasts and frequently kill People in that Country[192]. Footnote 192: _Ibid._ from _Baldeus_. When _Alexander_ was in the _East-Indies_, he and his _Macedonians_ were strangely alarm’d by an Army of Serpents that sallied upon ’em from the Woods, which would soon have destroy’d them, but for the Humanity of a _Native_, who directed them to a certain Herb that cured their Wounds, and saved them from Ruin[193]. The same Historian adds, that in those great Deserts, frequent and terrible Scuffles happened between Elephants and Serpents about Water, when they met at a Spring, and it so fell out some time, that both perish’d; for the Serpent roll’d it self about the Elephant’s Leg by several Folds, who finding himself wounded, falls down, and in falling often crushes his Enemy to death. _Ibid._ Footnote 193: _Diodor. Siculus._