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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY 351 afterward to Cranado, where the King of Spain saw it, which soon after by reason of the change of aire and incertainty of diet, did also pine away and die. The hke things doth Cardan report of a beast called Chiurca, in Hispania Nova, and Siadinius of a Suruvoy in America: but I con- jecture that the former is this Fox-Ape called in Greek, Alopecopithe- cos, and of the Ger- mans Fuschsaffe, the latter the P'emale Cy- nocephal, which carry- eth her womb wherein lie her young ones with- out her belly." Of a U'ihic Beast in the New-found World called Su. "There is a Region in the New-found World, called Gigantes, and the Inhabitants thereof are called Pan- tagones; now because their Countrej^ is cold, being far in the South, they clothe them.selves with tlio skins of a Beast called in their own tongue Su, for by reason that this Beast Uveth for the most part neer the waters, there- fore they call it by the name of Su, which sig- nifieth water. The true Image thereof as it w^as taken by Theve- tus, I have here inserted, for it is of a very deformed shape, and monstrous presence, a great ravener and untamable wilde Beast. When the Hunters that desire her skin set upon her, she flj-eth very swift, carrying her young ones upon her back, and covering them with her broad tail: now forsomuch as no Dog or Man dareth to approach neer unto her, (because such is the wrath thereof, that ^*'^^*^^S!J\^^' "r^'i^j^^'
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Opossum and family on the march. This slender-waisted creature is called by Thevet and others the "Su," and characterized as a ferocious and ravenous beast. (From Thevet's ".Singularitez." 1.5.58)

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