A CATALOGUE OF MANY Natural RARITIES, WITH Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years travel in Foreign Countries, COLLECTED BY ROBERT HUBERT, alias FORGES, Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty. And daily to be seen, at the place called the Music House, at the MITRE, near the West end of St. Paul's Church. London, Printed by Tho. Ratcliff, for the Author, 1664. A CATALOGUE OF MANY Natural RARITIES. I. Rarities HUMAN. A Giants Thigh-bone, more than 4. feet in Length; found in Syria. A Mummy, entire, and adorned with Hieroglyphics, that show both the Antiquity, and eminent Nobility of the Person, whose Corpse it is, taken out of one of the Egyptian Pyramids. II. Rarities of BEASTS and Parts of them. A Hahut or Sloth, a fourfooted Animal of America, in the Head and Neck somewhat resembling a Man. It hath 3. Claws one each foot, but the Claws are like a Boars tusks, it is of Florida, and is the slowest of all Beasts, from whence it hath its Name. It was given by Esq Scott, an ingenious Gentleman and a great traveller in America. A Haget, which sleeps six months: it is a creature of the Island Mayonto in the Lake Yondarro, two hundred miles from Hudsons' river in America, it hath a Costly fur, and is held for excellent meat in that Country. A Linx, it is a fierce creature with an excellent fur, it is as big as an ordinary water Spaniel, and is a very quick sighted creature, this beast leapt from a tree, and had almost killed a Woman, but that she was speedily delivered by a Moor, who shot him to death. It was given by Mr. Linzey Chirurgeon of Poplar. An Ermine; which living had rather suffer death, then to be defiled; as some Authers testify. A Monstrous Cat, with two bodies, one head, eight legs and two tails, it was presented by worthy Mr. Thornton, Chaplain to the right honourable the Earl of Bedford. A Musk Rat of Russia, this Creature lives in fresh rivers and has a large long tail and duck-feets behind, the better to swim withal. Parts of Beasts. The Horns of a Dog, of a Land near China. The Horns of a Hare, which were the Prince Electors of Saxony. A Rhinoceros Horn, that was also given by his Highness the Duke of Holstein. The Claw and Scale of a Rhinoceros, which is esteemed the Unicorn. A very long winding Horn of a Ram in Germany. The Black horns of a Russia Ram, four growing together; two straight, and two crooked. A strange horn of a Virginia Dear. A strange horn of a Germane Rain Dear. Another sort of Raine Deeres horn. A pair of Antlopes' horns. A Male and Female Barbarouses heads, either of them are as big as a Swine's head; it is a strange beast of the Deserts of East India, it hath two tusks like a Boar in the lower jaw, and two great tusks growing upon the nose. A Guinney Bats-skin, larger than a great Coney skin. A soft Ball of hair, bigger than a man's fist, found in the maw of a Calf in Holland. A Black Ball, with a hard shell found in the stomach of a wild Bull in Brasil. A little Orbicular Ball, hard and light, found in the stomach of a strange beast of India. A strange Tusk of a great Boar. A great Tooth of an Hippopotamus. Besides the things above mentioned, there are in a chest great variety of strange bones, teeth and claws of many different Creatures. III. BIRDS. A Phenicopter or Passoflamingo; given by the Ingenious Lover of Rarities Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Highness the Duke of York. This bird is good meat and was much esteemed by the delicate-mouthed Romans. A Manncodiata, or Bird of Paradise with feet, for it hath great feet, to show that it perches on trees in a land as yet unknown: for they are never seen alive; but are found always dead in the Moluccos Islands, by reason of a continual wind that bloweth six months one way & six months the other way and because of their sharp head, little body, and a great feathered tail, they are blown up so high that they fall dead in another climate or Country. A Bird called the Altion of East India. A Tropic-bird, this Bird is called so, because that kind is seen near the Tropic or under the line: for when the Mariners see them fly in the air, they then can conjecture where about they are. It is a Sea foul, of a grey colour, but the quills of the feathers of his wings are black, and the feathers white, and his bill like a crow, but very red; and his feet like a ducks, but of two colours. An Arcuata Coccinea, a sort of Sea- Curlew, highly esteemed by the Natives of Brasile, who call it Guaro. It changes the colour of its feathers thrice, viz. from black to ash-colour, and then to white, but the second year put on new ones of a scarlet, which the longer the bird lives it grows more bright and orient; It is found in Marahoon and Rio de Janciro. Given me together with the full Relation of it, by the learned Dr. Charlton one of the King's Majesty's Physicians in ordinary, and excellently knowing in Natural Rarities. A strange Sea-fowle as big as a Goose; it is called the Sea Pinguin, it cannot fly, for his wings are like fins, and is so thick of feathers that one cannot shoot him, unless behind against the growth of his thick down or feathers, he is found threescore leagues from the Coast of Canada. A Sea-Crow, it is as big as a Raven, it hath feet like a Duck and a bill like a Crow. A Sea-Parret, or Coppernose of Greeneland, the bill is of several colours, but the feet of a scarlet, and like a Duck. A Great Bird of Guiney called the Guiney Wake, it resembles something a Peacock on the head, and hath a tough like the bristles of a Hog on the top of his head, and hath a scent like musk, and as ill-favoured feet as the Peacock. Several Tominci or Humming Birds of several countries, which live by the dew that they suck from the flowers with their little long tongues. A very rare little Bird. The Nest and the Bird altogether do not weigh 24. grains, it is a lesser species of humming Bird then ordinary. The Head and Bill of the Bird Ibis of Egypt; it is the bird that taught the use of Glisters; and in that Country there is a Law that condemns any to death, who kills one of them. For they devour the Serpents in those parts. An Indian Storks head and bill. An Acoras head and bill of Brasil. A Pelican's head, bill and bag with the feet, to prove that it is a water fowl: he does not make himself to bleed a purpose for his young ones, but by accident, by carrying of shellfish in his thin bag makes it to bleed. A Toucans' head and bill of Peru; the head and bill of that bird are bigger than all his body; it is a very rare one and did belong to the King of Spain. The Head and Leg of an Ostrich. The Head and Bill of a Stone-pecker, of Germany. A Leg of a Casoware or Emen. A Leg of a Dodo a great heavy bird that cannot fly; it is a bird of the Mauricius Islan. Several sorts of Eggs, of bird, fishes and serpents. The Nest of a Bird in Africa, built with a long Neck on a Tree, to secure himself and young ones from Apes and Monkeys. A Nest of a Bird made like the secret parts of a man, by a little Bird in Brasil, to secure him and his young ones from the Serpents. A Nest of another Bird, made like another thing and of other materials, it is also built on a tree, but of a Country distant from Brasil above 3000 miles. An other Nest of a little Bird of India, but no body does know of what material it is made, yet the great persons of that Country eats it for good meat. A large bush of black feathers, that for the Rarity, and beauty, doth exceed that which the master of these Rarities did see, of the great Turks or Sultan at Constantinople. iv FISHES. A Sea Elephant or Rock fishes head as big as a bushel. This sort of fish loves to be near the Rocks therefore the Seamen when they espy the fish, come not near the place, for fear of a Rock under water. The Head of a Sea-sheep, of Caepe de Vert in Africa, the fish is good meat and the head very like a sheep's head. A Sea-Lyons head, for its form it is a species of doggefish, but is very good meat especially the liver. A Crack-shell-fish head, this fish lives upon shell-fish, and hath three great teeth in the inner part of his mouth, with the which he grinds the shells to small pieces, it is a fish of America. A great Sea-Catts head of China. A great Sturgeons bed of the Germane Ocean; The Sturgeon hath no teeth, but receives his food by a round hole that is under his head, by which he sucks in his food. A Head and Tail of a Dolphin, the Dolphin's tail is different from all other fishes for it grows thwartwise the better to rebound out of the water, as he does often against a storm. A great Sword-fish head and Sword of the black Sea; it is one of the swiftest fishes that swims, and is excellent meat, sliced, broiled, with oil pepper and salt and the juice of a lemon on it. The Scull of a Sea-Morce of Green land, this fish does sleep hanging on the Rocks by the great teeth of the upper jaw and so is taken in Norway. A strange fishes head that did belong to the King of Bohemia. An Extraordinary great Tortises head of East India, it is called the Loggerheaded Tortoise. A fish called the Dagger fish for the form of the head, it is a species of Sea Unicorn. The Head of a fish of Madagascar, this fish moves the upper jaw, and not the lower. The Head of a fish that is found in fresh rivers as the Danubius in Hungaria, and the Elbe in Saxe, it is a fish with a round great head and small eyes and two long horns like a beard, and is a good tasted fish, and is called Siluti. Whole Fishes. A Shoveller or Blue Shark, very perfect, given by Doctor Eastgate, Physician ●n Poplar. A Monk-fish Shark, the Shark does engender like fourfooted creatures on land, and has ten or twelve at a litter; When their young ones are in any danger they receive them in their stomach and then disgorge them out again. A Spotted Dogfish of the Coast of France. A shovel Dog fish, it is a species of Shark, his eyes are seated afore distant one from another: It was given by his highness the Duke of Holstein. A great Frog fish of the Baltic Sea, this fish is as big as a great hog. A Sea Otter, this Creature is an Amphibium, and hath his forefeet like sins: but seated in the midst of his body like a cross; his skinn is hairy like down or silk, it is so soft and bright. A Sea Leopard, so called from his spots, it is a species of Seal, and is also an Amphibium. A little Sea Calf or Seal which also participates of both Elements, and hath four feet but short, the two hinder broad, and no ears, the better to endure long in the water. Olaus the Great writes, that this creature is the most unconstant to his female of any; which is the cause often times of his death, for the fisher men to take him counterfeit the braying of a female, they are common in the Finland Sea. A Sea Wolf, it is a creature that hath the strongest teeth and bites the hardest of any for his bigness: for his head being cut off from his body living, a quarter or half an hour after is able to by't one's hand off. A Sea Ape, for his form, and is called the Joint fish for its nature, for if one holds one's hand afore his head, when he is living it makes the joints of hand and arm to crack, this fish is found in Brasil. A little Tortoise, called the Hawks-bill-Tortoise. A Sea Tortoise hath 3. hearts, and it is of a threefold nature, for it lives in the Sea like a fish, it lays eggs in the sand by the shore side, to be hatched by heat like a fowl, and it crawls one 4. fens like feet, and hath flesh and blood like a 4. footed beast. A less Tortoise newly hatched out of his egg; all Sea Tortoises are good meat when they are in season. A great Sea Tortoise; it is a Creature much addicted to generating, for the male will remain on the female ten days or more, to the great impoverishing of himself to carry on, but to the bettering of the female in her laying of four or five hundred of eggs at a time, in a hole she makes in the sands, then covers them, and so they are afterwards hatched by the Sun. A Male Conny fish, armed with a hard shell, and two horns, or prickles before and two behind. A Triangular fish; it is a female Conny fish, larger than the male, the better to contain her spawn, and is also armed with the like hard shell, but not with prickles. Nature forcing her to follow the male for her defence. A long narrow fish called the Sea Pelican: for the form of his head. Also it is called the Sea Dart, for the form of his body and and tail that is like the head of a barbed arrow. A great Sea Porcupine fish of the West India. A Hedge-Hog-fish. It is a species of the Sea Porcupine, only the prickles are shorter. It was given as an addition of these Rarities by his Highness the Duke of Holstein. A Sea Mouse, so called for the form of his head and beard; this fish contrary to the nature of other fishes shricks in the water and out of the water like a mouse, but for his sins he is something like a Serpent in colour, and is about a foot long, but is very good meat. A great horned Sole fish. It is like a large Sole, but hath his Mouth right a fore, with one great horn between his eyes, and both the sides of his body of one colour, different from the Nature of other Soles that are brown of one side and white on the other. A Saw fish, Vulgarly called the Swordfish, but is not. This fish is the enemy to the Whale; for with the prickles of his weapon he torments the Whale so much that the great monstrous fish kills herself by swimming too hastily without her Pilot-fish against the shore, her body being so fat and heavy, and her skin so thin. A little prickled Dog fish of the Germane Sea. A Sturgeon of Holland. A Sturgeon of an other species, such as is found in Italy. A Parrot, or Angrey fish of Brasile, it is a species of Globe-fish, which cannot swim in a storm, and therefore fills his maw with stones, to lie steady in the bottom of the water. A Sucking fish of Ice land, it is a species of Lump-fish, that cannot swim likewise in a storm, but sticks to the Rocks, with a seeming mouth that is under the fore part of his belly. A Poison fish of East India, so venomous that thirteen men in a ship died by eating of one of them, he is called by some the Sea Hare; he is for his form something long and four square and is a species of Conny-fish. An Hermit fish of the bottom of the Sea, it is a creature that liveth in the shell of an other fish, the fishermen makes use of them to bait other fishes withal. A Soldier fish, it is a creature that liveth on Mountains or highland in the Caribea Islands under the roots of trees, but once a year cometh to the Sea side to spawn in vast multitudes, and then they possess themselves of the shells of other fishes, and so march back again with their plundered shells. A Woodcock fish of the the Baltic Sea, his head is like a long bill full of sharp teeth, and for the length it is counted a Sea Serpent. A Prickled Tead fish of India, being a species of Globe fish. A 4. Prickled fish of East India. All other fishes, though greater, are afraid of him, for his prickles that he hath before and behind; therefore they will not come near him, and he is always taken alone. An Angel fish, so called for his beautiful colours, that he hath under water, this is of the West India's. A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow, that flies sometimes aboard the ships, and thinking to escape a fish that is his adversary, becomes a good friend to man, by being good meat, when well dressed. A Trumpet fish of the Baltic Sea, it is a kind of Sea Serpent, and somewhat resembleth the Needel fish. A Smith fish, it is likewise called S. Peter's fish, the one half is the head, and the other half is the body; it was given by his Highness the Landgrave of Hessen. A Wave fish so called for the manner of the growing of his scales. A Weapon fish of Bermudos, this fish hath a long sharp bone on his back to defend himself, which he raiseth, or letteth fall in a hollow case, when he will. An other sort of Weapon fish of the West India's. A fish called the Sea cock of the Spanish coasts A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus, that hath two prickles before, that are venomous. A Sun fish, for sleeping in the Sun it is also called the Moon-fish, for shining in the night to the amazement of Seamen that sees so great a light; this fish is of a strange form, for 'tis like a head only, but hath a very little mouth for so great a body. A great Netted Stare fish, for his form, it is one of the sensiblest creatures of the world, and hath but one eye. It was given by Sr. Thomas Wardner Governor of Sr. Christopher's Island. A very rare great Star fish of India; this fish feeds on flat shell fishes, and his mouth is in the Centre of his body. A large Comett, or Sixfingers' fish of India, it is a species of Star fish. A little Crowned Star fish of the Coast of Denmark. A little round boded Star fish with long narrow feet or points. A Flat flowered Star fish of the Germane Sea. A five pointed little Star fish of the Coast of Holland. A little Star fish with twelve points, taken on the Coast of England. A prickled Crab called the Sea Spider, which has little claws on his feet, like birds claws; It was given to the augmenting of these Rarities, by the Learned Petrus Carisius, the King of Denmark's Resident in the united Provinces. A King Crab of the Moluccos Island this creature has the eyes on his back, and is also called a Sea Spider, for the resemblance. A great Sea Crab. A Witland Crab; it is like a death's head, and lives in the ground like Coneys in a burrow, in some Islands of the West India's. An other species of King Crab or Sea Spider, but as light as a sheet of Paper, yet it is as big as an ordinary face. An Icus Marinus, that is called the Sea Orange. A Torpedo or Benumbing fish, for it taketh away the sense of feeling from the fisher man's hands when he is in his Net. He is of Africa, and did belong to the King of France. A very perfect great and true Remora of India, whose property is to hinder or stay great ships as they swim; it hath on his head many open spaces out of which proceeds a glutinous humour, with the which he sticks so fast to any smooth thing that a man cannot well lose him. A strange black Plaice, from the Sea of Denmark. A little prickled Globe Fish, also called the Sea Owl, for his form. An Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea; his belly is said to be very venomous. An Hippocampus of Brasil, of an other sort: for he has a little white horn under his head. A little Spouting or Fountain fish; for it sticks to the Rocks, and when one will take him, he spouts the water in ones face. A strange sort of Oyster, that is called the Sentry fish for his nature, for he is fastened to the Rocks and most commonly stands open to catch fish; for as the fish thinks to eat him, he takes his enemy prisoner and then entertains him as good meat. A Navel fish, a round slimy misshapen thing, that sticks to the Rocks, and contracts itself in the shape of a Navel, and is a venomous creature. A true Purple-fish, that sticks to the Rocks and is an insect of the Sea composed of many hard shells laid over one another like the scales of wood-lice. I walking by the Sea side to search after the secrets of Nature, found one of them in the West India: but I wondered at the variety of colours wherewith it stained my hand For, first it was green, then blue, afterwards, purple, and lastly it became a beautiful Red; and taking my handkerchief to my hands it died the same likewise, and the colours remain in the linen not to be washed out. A Limpet, which sticks also to the rocks, and is an Insect of the Sea, having a flat shell, but the creature within is something like a snail, with little horns and is very good meat. A Needle-fish, it is a small little long fish of the form of of a needle. A Sea Louse, is also an insect of the Sea in Greenland, and sticks to the Whale, for food. Some Sea-fleas, when the sea is at a low Ebb, they are found by hundreds under some Rocks, and after storms, on the sands by the shore side. Some Sea-Scorpions; they are infects of the Sea and have six feet like a Scorpion, and a long tail. Some Mint fishes, they are little round creatures, but when they are dry they are flat and marked like money. A Sea Eye, it is a species of the Mint fish, round and clear like Jelly, but venomous. A Parakeet fish of the Adriatic Sea; it is a little green fish like a Parakeet, but hath small teeth afore like unto a mouse's. A little Burre-fish, it is green and like a burr that sticks to one's , it is one of the species of Icus Marinus. A little fish found in moarish grounds in Swedland, it hath a little prickle on the back that is venomous. A little Sea Serpent, something resembling a Conger, but the head is bigger, for the proportion of its body. A Sea Insect called the Sea-chairs; it hath many scales like a wood louse, two long horns, and a forked tail. A Water Insect called squilla Fluviatilis, or the water Cricket. Also many hundred of very rare and beautiful fish shells all different in their forms, works, or colours, and other things belonging to Animals, in Chests and Boxes. Amongst some of them a very rare Mother of Pearl, or the Pearl oyster, with an oriential Pearl in the midst; and a Carvall fish shell of the Red Sea, and two or three species of shells that grow contrary to the nature of all shells in general: for they grow towards the left hand. Another sort called the Antipathio shell for the Centre is on the bottom, and the other shells in general has the Centre on the top. Parts of FISHES. A Rib of a Triton or Mereman, taken by Captain Finny, upon the shouts of Brasil, five hundred Leagues from the Main; given by Doctor Esgate Physician. The Vein of the tongue of that Whale that was taken up at Greenwich, a little before Cromwel's death, it is like a vein stock that is withered. A piece of the Skin of the Whale; the pizzle eight or nine foot long, the Drum-●panne, a tooth, a fin of one of the Gills, some twelve foot long, and the bone that the Whale spouts the water out withal and a neck bone. The Tail of a Sea Cat, or stingray, it will saw like an iron saw. A very great Saw, or Weapon of a Saw-fish. A Round flat bone of a fish like a pancake. An Extraordinary great Lobsters Claw. A Great Jaw of a large Tabourein, it is a Species of Shark, and hath four or five tire or rows of teeth, it was sent the Master of these Rarities from the West Jndia. V SERPENTS, etc. A Serpent above twenty foot long of the East India, it hath in the upper chap four rows of teeth; this Serpent when he was living, could swallow men or beasts. A long Narrow Serpent like a piece of narrow hair-coloured Satin edged with white Satin. A Beautiful Serpent called Ibaboca of Brasil, some ten or twelve foot long. A Spotted Serpent of the Island Jamaica; this, with the three following Serpents was given to the increase of these Rarities, by worthy Mr. Powey one of the Royal Society of Philosophers, and Treasurer to his highness the Duke of York. A Grey Coloured Serpent, this Serpent being held before the light, the skin appears like Network. A Gold Coloured Serpent, for this Serpent skin is like cloth of Gold. An other Serpent of India like Cloth of Silver, with black spots. A Black Serpent of Virginia, it is eaten for good meat. A Boitininga, or Rattle Snake; Nature has form him with a rattle at his tail that men might avoid the danger of his biting; for being once bittten by him, a Man dies in half an hour unless he hath of the rattle snake root, for to apply alittle of it to the offended place, and by eating a little of it also; therefore the Savages of Virginia seldom travel without it. A Viper of Italy. A Viper of Germany. An Adder of England. A little Serpent of Germany. A Slowworm of Hessen. An other coloured little Serpent. An Asp. A great Tatoo or Armadillo of the Duke of Orleans; it lives under ground like a Mole, and is as big as a pretty big dog; it is a great Rarity in the East India, and a noble present of so great a Prince. An Armadillo of the West India that is esteemed good meat there. An other sort of Armadillo of the East India that was presented King James for a Rarety. A great Crocodile, given by Noble Squire Courtine, a lover of virtue and ingenuity. A little Spotted Crocodile of Egypt. A very little Crocodile, as it first came out of his egg. A little Aligater of Brasil, it is a species of Crocodile. A great Lizzard of Africa, that is said to be so loving to Man, that if the Man be a sleep and in danger of some other creature, he will then awake him. A great Spotted Lizzard skin, that his Highness the Landgrave of Hessen gave as a Rarity. An other species of Lizard of Numidia, or of Arabia, it is called by some the land Crocodile. A B●●gelugey, it is a creature of some parts of Africa, a kind of Lizard, that hath great scales like a fish. A C●●●l●on of Barbary; it is said to live only by the air, but it is not so, for he lives by slyes and, yet he can live long without food, his skin being so nervous, and very little porous. A True Salamander, is said to live in the fire, as has been too often reported, but will live longer in the fire then any living creature of his bigness, for the matter or moisture that proceeds from him condenses and so smothereth the fire, as milk or glue doth. A Guaena of America, it is a sort of Lizard as big as a good Rabett, but in those parts held for better meat; it lives by the fruits of trees, and is so harmless that one may take him by the tail as he is on a tree. A Black land Tortoise full of little yellow speeks, such as those in Germany or Greece. A little land Tortoise of Canada with many other different land Tortoises out of the East and West Indies, they are all generally good meat. A fair Sincus Terrestris of Egypt, it hath four feet like a Lizard, but resembles a fish, though it be a land creature; it is said that one part of his body is cooling; but the other part is provocative to man or woman. A Coal Black Toad. Frogs with two feet and a tail. Frogs with four feet and a tail. Two forts of Scorpions. VI Infects or FLIES. A Fly bigger than a Sparrow, called the bill- Scarabeus. A rare great Fly called the Salamander Fly for his colours, and that it is like to wrought velvet. A great Scarabeus of the Amazons, very entire, and of beautiful colours. A Lantern Fly of Peru; two or three of these Flies fastened to a stick, give light to those that travel in the Country. A Black Elephant Fly, for his form. A Buck Fly, for his horns. A Leopard Fly, for the colours of his spots on his body. A Parret-Flie, for his shape and for his rare changeable colours. A Mole Fly, for his feet and for his silken hairy down. A Rich Coloured great Cantharideses of the East Indies. An Emerald Fly so called for his rare glittering green colour. A Saphir Fly so called for his bright shining blue colour. A Musk Fly, it is called so for his Odotiferous scent when he is alive. A West India Cacaorche. An Insect some thing broad, but can insinuate himself in the least chink of a chest to the great offence of men by spoiling of leather or woollen. A little brown Scarabeus of East Indies. A Rare Dragon-Flie. A Rare Butterfly of Germany. A Rare Butterfly of Swedland, with several hundreds of other rare infects and Flies, all different one from another, either in shape, or colours. THE SECOND PART OF THE CATALOGUE. I VEGETABLES. A Stick that is grown hollow like a net; it was Prince Maurice of Nassaw's Rarity, that he brought out of Brasil. A Stick that is grown like a knot, and is a pipe to play on. A Stick like a Cross. A Stick like St. Andrew's Cross. A Stick like a Serpent. A Stick or piece of wood grown like the secret parts of a man. An other Stick or piece of wood grown as the above mentioned. A Stick with two branches grown together; it was a Rarity of the marquis of Badon. A Natural Brush or broom of India. A Bag grown on a tree like woven stuff, as tiffany or Cobweblawn of India. A Blossom of a Suggar Cane. A Branch of a Palm tree of the Jew land. A great Cod or Blossom of another species of Palm of the West India. A Right Cedar fruit, with a piece of the branch of one of the Cedars of Mount Libanon. An Ear of Corn or Mace of Virginia, whereof one grain produces hundreds. An Ear of a strange Corn in a Country in Africa, whereof one grain produces more than a thousand. A great Blossom of the Fox-tayle-plant, of St. Thomas de Lovando in Africa. A Limon, that represents both the secret parts of an Hermapherodite. A Rose of Jericho, that is an hundred years old, and yet can open so wide, that it cannot well be put in ones hat, and the next day will be closed less than ones fist. An Excrescence, or plant like a Rubbing brush. A Fruit of Brasil, that grows with a cover; it is called the Apes Nutt, because when the fruit is ripe, the Apes open it, to eat the many kernels that are in it; the fruit is thick, hard and very heavy and grows naturally with a cover, therefore it is also called the covered fruit. A great Maraca, a fruit of India, that hath an hard shell like a Nutt, but as big as a man's head, it is like the scull of a man with the Sutures. An other sort of Maraca, that grows on a high tree, but one cannot well climb on it, because the branches are so small and so full of prickles, but that does not hinder the rats from being liquorish of them: for if that fruit or Nut falls they make a hole to eat what is in it, and the Savages make a strong drink of the sap within, but of the shells they make their necessary household stuff, as Cups, Spoons, Dishes and the like. A Ganobany fruit of Guiney. A Bacbob or great Ganobany given by the King of Swedes Physician; this fruit is great and heavy, and on the out side it is like velvet. A great Gourd in the form of a Pear. A Red Gourd of Guiney. An other pretty shaped Gourd. A Tomarus fruit of Binney. A little double Pineapple. A Cocos fruit whole; the fruit and tree, afford many necessary things for the benefit of man, as Milk, Wine, Water, Oil, Vinegar, Needles, Thread, Board's, Cordage, sails, and other things. A Cocos Nut something round, representing a face. A long Cocos Nut something like a fish in shape. A Prickle-Apple of India. A large Carab; it is a fruit that grows on a high tree in the Caribeiss; the shell of it burned, casts a sent like perfume, and the inward part tastes like dry spiced bread. A Loaf of Bread made of the Cassado-Rotte; the sap or moisture of that root is deadly poison, yet it makes good bread, for the fire evaporates the malignant nature of it. A Silk Cotton Codd, such as in China, they make their fine paper of it. An other Species of Cotton in a Codd of the West Indies. A Stinging long Bean of Brasile. A Fruit or great Bean like the heart of a Sheep. A long Cassia fruit of Egypt. A Fruit called the May-cock; it is common in Virginia, and the outward part of it is meat there, and not the inward. A Bunch of Ethiopian Pepper. A square thing made of the Cocos Bark, to cover the secret parts of Men or Women, and it is also in that Country their ready money. A Purse woven without a seam of the Cocos fruit. A Piece of Wood that turneth water into two colours at once. A piece of Wood, and part stone together; His Majesty King Charles the first did try it, and gave it to the owner of these Rarities. Two very perfect Mandrakes, the one Male, and the other Female; both of them did grow in Africa; they are esteemed of Women in those parts, and are found by accident in the fields by a red flower that the root bears and a long stalk, when it is in perfection. A Fruit called Genipapa, it is of the form of a Limon, but of strange operation, for the juice is as clear as water; but a little of it put on ones hand dyeth it of a purple colour; but to redouble it with more of the same liquor, it makes the place as black as Jet and no art of man can fetch it out, but it will grow out of itself in nine days; and if the hogs eat of it, it doth not endanger them, but makes their fat of a purple colour. II. Sea PLANTS, etc. A Very fair purple Sea Feather. A large grey coloured Sea Feather. A fine Limon coloured Sea Fann. A Deep yellow coloured Sea Fannio grown to a great pibble-stone. An Iron-coloured Sea Fannio, as stiff as Iron wire. A Plant or little Tree of Black Horn; for the branches being burnt, they stink and wrinkle like horn; and being put in warm water become very soft; but the root or lower part is hard white stone. A very great Trumpet plant, that grows in the bottom of the Indian Sea, and they make trumpets of it in those parts. A Purple Sea Plant, given by Dr. Towers of Hamburgh. A very rare Sea Plant of two colours. A fine Yellow Sea Plant like a branch of small Birch. A Plant of the Sea, a Rock, and a Shell fastened or grown all together. A Sea Plant like Heath. A Sea Plant like the hair of ones heard. A Black Sponge, grown in branches like a Tree on a Rock; it is a very fine Rarity. A very rare Sea Plant or Shrubb, with shell fishes, grown, like fruits on a tree; it is esteemed rare and strange. A Sea Plant grown on a white Coral. A Strange Sea Plant called the transparent Coral; it is of the Colour of Glue. A Branch of the Solid white Coral. A Tree of Rough white Coral, also called the bush coral, it is perfect and rare. A White Coral with little double shell fishes, that grew in each part of it; it is a Rarity that was much esteemed of the Emperor in his room of Rarities. A red Coral on the Rock as it did grow. A white Coral grown on a Plant. A perfect white Coral called Heart's horn Coral. A branch of soft Yellowish Coral. A branch of black and white Coral, called Joint Coral. A piece of Red Coral grown on a shell together. A piece of Red and white Coral grown together. A great round Sea Stone like a great moushroome or toadestoole. A rare Concretion of the Sea with several sorts of shells together. A Concretion of Mussells together. A Concretion of Stones and Iron together. A Stone found in the bottom of the Sea in the form of an humane face. Some of the right Alcionum of the red Sea, by which the water of the Sea appears red in the shallow parts of it where that is found. Over and above these things mentioned, there are in several chests and boxes, many hundreds of stones of the Sea, plants of the Sea, with Coral and Coralins, and Alcionums, Concretions of things of a different nature, and such like, which are omitted for brevity sake: but upon further encouragement may be declared in time. III. MINERALS, Stones of strange shape, and things turned into Stones, with Crystals and precious Stones. AN Hungarian Rock of vitriol, in the shape of a man's visage. A Rock of Copper and Crystal together. A Rock of a kind of Emerald and Amethyst together. A Rock glittering like Silver. A Rock of Portugal of a strange form. A Rock with Muscle shells. A Rock like a bunch of grapes of the Cardinal Richelieu. A Rock with whole flat shells of a Mountain in Germany. A Rock of a Quarry of stone near to the City of Franckfurd. A Rock like a great piece of wax, or rosin. A Rock of Moss in stone belonging to the Emperor Ferdinand the third. A ●ak● in stone, a Rarity that was esteemed very much by divers persons beyond Seas. A Stone, like the bottom shell of a great Oyster, but never was one. A piece of old wood turned to stone, yet reserving the colour. A piece of old worm-eaten bark of a tree in Stone. A piece of old Birch-wood, that appears to have been chapped off at both ends, turned into stone, yet reserves the true resemblance and colour of the perfect wood. A piece of Oaken Wood turned into Jasper, it is polished on the one side, that the grain of the Wood may appear, and was sawed off from a piece of Wood like a billet, that a Cardinal had in Rome, for a great Rarity. A Right Eagle Stone, it is a true Calcedonyan stone, but like a lump of Gum Tragacant; it was the Kings of Marrocco, it is a precious stone that is very Rare: for that King permits none in his country to have any of them but himself, as a token of his royalty, but yet gives them to eminent persons, as a mark of his great favour. A great Lapis Ammonis, that did belong to the King of France. An other great Lapis Ammonis, coal black. A Yellow stone like Wax, that has on it the representation of a vine leaf or flower; it is of a glittering substance. A great Triangular Stone, that hath a representation of trees and bushes. A great Jasper stone in a frame, it doth represent a moorish ground with rivers, trees and bushes. An Extraordinary rare Calcedonian stone in a frame, it is like a piece of Ice on the ground. A Marble stone of the river Arno in a frame, the Emperor Ferdinand the third confessed he never saw a rarer: for it doth represent a bridge and an old ruinous tower, a tree with the bark, and birds flying in the Air, it was the great Duke of Florence's Rarity. Another stone picture like an arm of the Sea, with Cottages and a Church by the waterside. A very rare Stone picture representing cloudy skies, and an excellent rocky Cave Given by the Earl of Pembrock. An other very fine stone picture like a ruinous town on a hill. An other stone of the same Nature in a frame. A very rare stone picture like a City all on fire. The Master of these Rarities, had it as a rare thing from the Prince Elector of Cullens hands. A white stone that does represent a tree, as if it was made by art with a pen. Another very rare white Stone that does represent two or three trees also as if they were drawn with a pen. A large piece of Ice glass, but it is something brittle, and is a kind of Gipsum. A piece of Crystal, like a town built on a hill, it is much esteemed by ingenious spirits. A nother piece of Crystal very clear and rare, that hath in the midst a representation of a mossey figure or statiew, with the likeness of 2 horns on the head; all this representation is but one, yet it appears to be 3 or 4 by the reflections of the same natural Crystal. A piece of European Crystal, very clear. A piece of East India Crystal. A piece of West India Crystal. A piece of Yellow Crystal. A piece of Sea-green Crystal. A piece of bluish Crystal. A piece of bush Crystal. A piece of wave Crystal. A piece of frizzled Crystal. And divers other sorts or species of Crystals, that are not nominated for brevity sake. IV. METALS, MINERALS, etc. SEveral sorts of Iron Ore. Several Led Oars. Several Tin Oars. Several Copper Oars. Several Silver Oars. Several Gold Oars. Besides Metals, and Minerals growing something rare, as Led and Crystal together. Tin and Crystal together. Iron and Crystal together. Copper and Crystal together. Silver and Crystal together. Gold in the midst of a white stone. An Iron Bullet in the midst of a Stone. A Touch stone, and a Metalline substance on the other side like Copper. A very strange kind of Mineral, held to be Quicksilver, that is fixed in his mine; for being burnt it evaporates its self into a stinking vapour like to Quicksilver, it is something rare; for the Master of these Rarities, in his travels never saw more than two pieces, and this was one of them. A Flint and Copper grown together. Several sorts of Talks. Several sorts of Sulphur. Several sorts of Earth's out of Mines. Several sorts of other Minerals as Cinabaris, Antimonium, Saffor, Murienum, Flores Martis, and divers other Metals and Minerals and the like. Precious STONES. Amethyst in the Mine. Granates in the Mine. A sort of rich Diamond in the Mine. Chrysolites in the Mine. Jasper from the Mine. Lapis Lazuli from the Mine. Malaguita from the Mine. Turkeise from the Mine. Rubies from the Mine. Vermilions from the Mine. Emerald from the Mine. Hyacinths from the Mine. And divers other sorts of precious stones and different sorts of Pearls, for their colours and shapes, with several Toad stones and Eagle stones and such like. A Bohemian Topaz, on a rich pedestal of Ebony. An other rare Topaz, that hath in it a representation of a forest, or bushy-hills. A piece of Ambar, that hath in it a representation of a rising vapour or Cloud. Divers other pieces of transparent Amber, that have all something or other in them, as Flies, Spiders, Aunts or the like. Divers Stones of strange shapes and regular forms. Several Lapides Ammonis, or stones like Serpents. Several Glosopetrat, or Tongue stones. Several stones like unto Cloak buttons. Several Lapides Lincei. Several Lapides Judaici. Lapis Hamatites of Numidia. Lapis Nephriticus of India. Stones like Caps. Stones like Hearts. Stones like Stars. Stones like Wheels of Watches. Stones like little Pillars. Stones like Crosses. Stones like Screws. Stones like Pease. Stones like Darts-heads. Stones square like Dice. Stones in shape like Tobaco rowls. Stones with well form impressions. A Stone that is hollow and does appear as if it had a hole quite thorough but it has not. A Stone like a Dog's tooth. Agate Stones like the eyes of fishes. A Stone like a little ear. A Stone like ones gums with teeth. A Stone like the little Toe of ones left foot. A Stone like the secret parts of a Woman. Several Stones like unto Sugar plums, Sweetmeats, Marchpane, Sugar-candy, Sugar-cake and the like, and divers other sorts of stone of the like nature. V Things of strange Operation. A Hard white Stone, that if one puts it in the fire, doth suddenly turn to dust. Stones that being put into a glass of water, crack into small pieces, so that one may hear them crackle. A Stone that if one blows on it, it smells; but if one does not blow, it will not smell at all; and the harder one blows, the stronger it scents. A Stone that if one puts it on the fire, gives an excellent smell. A Stone that is hard and heavy, yet being put in the water does sent odoriferously like a hat-full of violet flowers. A good Loadstone, that is as rare as any other thing, though common for his sudden attraction of Iron. A Stone being held in a moist hand, giveth a sent like a nasty hog, and therefore is called the swine stone. A piece of Wood as bad for being scraped; and a little worm, smells like a stinking Jakes. A piece of Wood being scraped in a glass of water, it makes the water appear of two colours; for if one hold the glass betwixt two men, the one will say it is yellow and the other will say that it is of a dark blue. A piece of wood that is not heavy, yet sinks suddenly under water. A stone, so hard, that can it scratch steel, yet being cast in the water does not sink but swimes on the water. A Mineral stone, that rubbing of it to a piece of bright Iron or Steel, turns it suddenly into Copper. Stones from the West India that are hard, yet being put in vinegar stirs to and fro, and seems to creep or go. Other sorts of Stones that have the like property of stirring in vinegar. But above all these Stones for admiration, is a little stone like a grey coloured Agate, called by some Oculus Mundi; it being put in a glass of clear water, becomes as clear as crystal, and then taken out, in a little time returns to its first opacity; this Rarity was presented to the better adorning of the forementioned curiosities, by worthy Sr. Francis Peter. A mineral substance, that being put in a glass of wine, makes infinite bubbles like atoms that rises in the middle of the Wine to the delighting of the beholders. An other mineral substance, like silk, called Amianthus, and also Asbestos, it being put in the fire does not consume. A Crustated Sponge; a little of it dried and applied to one's wrist, makes it to itch for eight days together. A fruit that being stuck on a fork and then held over a candle, makes a very pleasant fire work. A Rose of Jericho that is drawn up together, a little bigger than a tennis ball, and is an hundred years old. Besides these above mentioned things, there are Chests and Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several shells, stones, bones, marcasits, minerals, fruits, Nuts, excrescences, and such like things all different in shapes, and operations, and of divers countries, Their Names and Natures being omitted for to avoid prolixity: But if the owner of this collection of Rarities does sell them to any Noble minded party, he then, God willing, will write at large a more ample declaration to the expressing of each thing in particular, to honour that virtuous person that shall buy them. A Catalogue of the Names of those Great Princes and persons of Quality whose Love of Virtue, Learning and of the admirable works of God in Natural Rarities has been showed by their Bountiful adding of something to the increase of the forementioned Collection. CHARLES the First, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, etc. CHARLES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland. Ferdinand. the third, Emper. of Germany etc. Elionora Empress, etc. Ferdinand. the fourth, King of the Romans, etc. Elleonora Queen Dowagere of Sweade, etc. Christina Queen of Swede, etc. John Philip's Archbishop of Mentz and Prince Elector, etc. Charles Lewis Palsgrave of the Rhein and Prince Elector, etc. John George Prince Elector of Saxony, etc. Maximilianus Henry Archbishop of Collen and Prince Elector, etc. Christian Lewis Duke of Lunemburg and Brunzwich, etc. Frederick Duke of Holstein, etc. William Landgrave of Hessen, Prince of Hersefeild, etc. Gaston Duke of Orleans, etc. Philip Earl of Pembroke. Monsieur de Belieure Great Prresident of France. The Honourable Sr. Thomas Row, His Majesty's Ambassador to the Great Mogor in India, and also Ambassador to the Emperor of the Turks at Constantinople, and to the Emperor of Germany and also to divers other Kings, Princes and Free States. Sr. Thomas Wardner General for the Caribea Islands, and Governor of St. Christopher's, and one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the first. Sr. Francis Peter's a friend to Ingenuity and Rarities. Frederick Shink Governor of Selle, and Privy Counsellor to the Duke of Brunzwich. The Learned Petrus Carisius Resident for the King of Denmark, in the united Provinces. Sr. Theodore de Mayerne, Physician to Queen Mother Heneretta, Maria. Esquire Courtine a lover of virtue and Ingenuity. Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. Dr. Saltzman Physician, and Professor in the University of Strasburgh. Dr. Fausius, Professor in the University of Hidelberg. Dr. Moretus, Professor in Astronomy in the University of Prague. Dr. Cornelius van der Lingon Physician in the University of Utrecht. Dr. Housewetel, Physician to the King of Sweden, and Chief Physician in Hamburg. Dr. Bezler Chief Physician in Nuramberg. Dr. Brown Physician in Ausburg. Dr. Dewit, Physician in the Country of Liefland. Dr. Eastgate, Physician in Poplar. Mr. Thornton Chaplain to the Right Honourable Earl of Bedford. Mr. Cornelius Middlegest, Clerk to the Company of the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa. FINIS.