The tail is very strong, robust and about a foot long, furnished with a more wonderful arrangement of scales than found on the other parts: the form of those which line its flanks is completely unlike that of the rest, because they are not flat like the others, they are hollow or concave and turned upwards to cover the flanks of the tail region. Near where each scale emerges it is grooved, and near the end almost smooth. The magnitude of the scales differs on different parts of the body. Here and there on the back these hairs grow from the scales themselves. The whole body, from the mouth to the extremities of the tail and feet, is wholly covered with continuous, blackish, rigid, and pointed scales except the throat, stomach and the lower part of the legs, which are clothed with stiffer hairs like a hare. The animal is two feet long, of the size of a Fox.Ĭaption: LACERTUS SQUAMOSUS (Scaly Lizard) Its vernacular name is unknown to us at present, but, lest anything should be unnamed for our ships’ boys, some like to call it the 'Pig' or the 'Devil of Taiwan,' perhaps on account of the wonderful and horrible form of its skin, which it raises when aggravated. It is frequent in the woods of the Island of Taiwan. The image of the disemboweled Lizard that I show here is of the same species, but not of the same size, as that which produced the pelt that Carolus Cluisus presents in his work on exotics. (In Willem Piso's De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri Quatuordecim) Jacob de Bondt, Historia naturalis et medica Indiae orientalis, 1658 Unde caro ejus vesca non solum, sed sicut magnae illae Lacertae Brasilienses Leguánae et Tatu, inter epulas ab omnibus passim incolis expetita. pastum iturus, Lacertis, aliisque Insectis, insidiatur, quibus pinguescit. Capite et promuscide non est porcino, ut Armadilho, sed tenuiori et actiori, more Talparum, quo terram commodius evertat. pedes breviusculi palmam circiter longi, posteriores quinque unguibus brevioribus, anteriores tribus oblongis, crassis, sed imbelle curvis, armantur, sicut in Brasiliensi Tamandoá, quibus, aeque ac illa, Formacarum et Vermium latebras detegit, praedamque qualemcumque mordicus tenet. Cauda est valida, fere pedem longa, prae caeteris membris mira squamarum textura ornatur: earum enim, quae ejus latera utrimque claudunt, forma prorsus à reliquis dissimiles, nam planae non sunt, aliarum instar, sed cavae quasi incurvatae, quia pronam et supinam laterum partem tegunt. Magnitudo squamarum pro diversitate partium corporis discrepant omnes ad exortum striatae, et ad finem quasi laevigatae. Iidemque pili hinc inde erumpunt in dorso ex ipsis squamis. Totum corpus ab oris ad caudae et pedum usque extremitates, perpetuis squamis nigricantibus, rigidis, et mucronatis, coopertus, except gutture, ventrisque, et crurum infima parte, quae durioribus pilis leporinis vestiuntur. Animal est duorum pedum longitudine, Vulpis magnitudine. Porcum, aliis vero Diabolum de Tajoán, appellare, fortassis ob miram et horridam squamarum conformationem, quas irritata erigit. Please let us have any comments, suggestions or alternative translations via the comments box below! The very strange and boundary-crossing nature of the animal seems to have made it difficult to place in relation to other creatures, it is both a lizard and an anteater, insect and mammal, inscrutably armoured.Īs always, we present the Latin first, followed by our translation. The pangolin here is obviously an animal that de Bondt encountered himself, because he relies very little on Clusius's description (see Part I), but produces an entirely new one from a specimen he may have possessed. The Historia naturalis et medica Indiae orientalis was published posthumously by Willem Piso from de Bondt's previous publications and manuscripts. He produced a great deal of material on the medicines and nature of the region, collected himself and from native informants. Jacob de Bondt ( Jacobus Bontius) was a Dutch East India Company official, living in Java in the early seventeenth century. Thanks to Natalie Lawrence for the following introduction to him: It's a Mac app for web designers, developers, and creatives to build HTML5 web galleries.Here is the second of two translations of texts about the pangolin (you can find the first one here). Exhibeo creates stunning, modern, and responsive HTML5 image presentations for the web. And the 3D camera of Focusky can create more stunning 3D animation effect exactly to make the HTML5 presentation oustanding. It can help you present your ideas in mind mapping style. Rather than traditional slide to slide presentation, the multimedia presentation can engage and inspire the audiences better. Choose from hundreds of templates to create customized presentations, websites, blogs and more. Emaze is the next generation of online content creation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |