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54 CURIOUS CREATURES.
Satyrcs are in the Islands Satiridcc, which are three in
number, right over against India on the farther side of
the Ganges; of which Euphemus Car rehearseth this
history : that when he sailed unto Italy, by the rage of
winde and evill weather, they were driven to a coast un-
navigable, where were many desart Islandes, inhabited
of wild men, and the marriners refused to land upon some
Islands, having heretofore had triall of the inhumaine
and uncivill behaviour of the inhabitants, so that they
brought us to the Satyrian Islands, where we saw the
inhabitants red, and had tayles joyned to their backs,
not much lesse than horsses. These, being perceived by
the marriners to run to the shippes, and lay hold on the
women that were in them, the shipmen, for fearc, took
one of the Barbarian women, and set her on the land
among them, whom in most odious and filthy manner,
they abused, whereby they found them to be very bruit
beasts."
He gives us his idea
of the Simia Satyrus,
which must have been
an accomplished animal,
for not only could it, ap-
parently, play upon the
pipe, but it had a handy
pouch for the reception
of the fruit (in lieu of
coppers) which it doubt-
less would receive as
guerdon for its perform-