Mouse, 137, 167, 194 Mouthless men, 75, 76 Munster’s “Cosmography,” 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220, 306 Music, dolphins love of, 330 Musinus, 129 Mussel, 196 Mutianus on monkeys, 139 Narwhal tusk, 324 “Natural History,” Bacon’s, 166 “Natural History of Norway,” 87 “Natural History of Selborne,” 180 “Natural Magick,” 154 “New Jewell of Health,” 277 Nightingale, 251 Nile represented in old maps, 13, 36 Noah and the raven, 242 Noseless men, 73 Oannes the fish-god, 96 Odin’s wolf, 157 Oil of swallows, 249 Oils of medicinal repute, 278 Olaus Magnus, writings of, 106, 320, 333 Omens from animals, 164 One-legged men, 42, 294 “Orlando Furioso,” extract from, 207, 304 “Ortus Sanitatis,” extract from, 280 Oryges, 197 Ostrich devouring iron, 231 “Othello,” Extract from, 241, 282 Ovid, the “Metamorphoses” of, 101 Owl, 246 Oxford life in the year 1636, 46 Oyster, the susceptible, 196 Panther, 149, 232 “Paradise lost,” extract from, 334 Parkinson, on barnacle goose, 219 Parrot-fish, 209 Parsee funeral customs, 13 “Pathway to Knowledge,” extract from, 312, 336 Peacock, 240, 254 Pearl-fish, 332 Pegasus, 324 Pelican, 227, 240 Percy Society Publications, 240 Performing elephants, 138 “Periplus” of Hanno, 67 Philomela, 252 “Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 132 Philostratus on pygmies, 55 Phisiologus on the mermaid, 80 Phœnix, 200, 240, 294 Physician-tench, 335 Pietro del Porco, 176 Pillars of Hercules, 36 Pinto, liar of first magnitude, 41 Plagiarism, 45 Playmate, dragon as a, 275 Pliny’s “Natural History,” 21, 95, 123, 150, 246 Plutarch, quotation from, 37 Poison fish, 209 Polypus and the significance thereof, 4, 5 Pomphagi, 72 Pontarf, 338 Pontoppidan, writings of, 87 “Poor Robin’s Almanack,” extract from, 170 Pope on learned blockheads, 33 Porta, extract from, 78, 122, 124, 152, 154, 160, 172, 182, 233, 283, 295, 300 Potter’s “Booke of Phisicke,” 45 Powdered mummy, 278 Praise of method, 53 Prawn, 332 Prester John, kingdom of, 293 “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 92 “Purchas his Pilgrimage,” 44, 318 Pygmies, 54, 294 Pyragones, 295 “Quentin Durward,” extract from, 157 Rabbit, 119 Raleigh, Sir Walter, on Guiana, 44 Ram, 198 Ram-headed man, 64 Rat, 194, 196, 282 Raven, 177, 241 Raven-stone, 244 Ray, its love for man, 331 Reginald Scot, “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 113 Rejuvenescence of the eagle, 226 Relentless asp, 307 “Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 165, 298 Remedies for hydrophobia, 189 Remora, 326 Rheumatism, remedy for, 167 “Rich Jew of Malta,” extract from, 241 Rings bearing toad-stone, 281 Robbers checkmated, 9 Robertson, “History of America,” 79 Robin, 249 Rochester rudeness to A. Becket, 68, 69 Roc or Rukh, 211