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Sea Unicorn, the. See Narwhal.

Seal, the. See Sea Calves.

Segonius, 321.

Seneca, 313.

Sennacherib, 209.

Seræ, who live four hundred years, 15.

Serpeda de Aqua, 291.

Serpents, bite of, cured by men’s saliva, 10; ditto by odour of men, 11; test of fidelity of wives, 11; destroy strangers, 69; war with Weasels and Swine, 70; killed by Spiders, 71; and Cats, 154, 155, 156; and Mice, 156; and Lions, 156; cure for bite of, 161; take medicine, 162; the Indian, a kind of whale, 226, 227; and Crabs, 267, 268; charming them, 278, 279; their loves, 280, 281; talking, 281; size, 281, 282; their coldness, 283, 284; pugnacity, 284, 285; their antipathies, 285, 286, 287; as medicine, 288, 289.

Servius, 171.

Sextus, 134, 138.

Shrew mouse, the, 68, 70.

Shu-Maon, a hairy man, 49.

Sicinnis, Sicinnistæ, a name for Satyrs, 57.

Sidetes, 140.

Sileni, a name for Satyrs, 56, 57.

Simeon, Rabbi, 166, 167, 168.

Simia Satyrus, the, 52, 53, 54, 56.

Simiinæ, the, 51.

Simocatus, 286.

Sindbad the Sailor, 218.

Siren, the, 172, 173.

Sluper, John, 7, 45, 65, 229.

Snow Birds, 191, 192, 193.

Solinus, 58, 313.

Solyman, Sultan, 96.

Somerville, Sir John, 298, 299, 300.

Sow, 135, 136.

Spenser, 88, 158, 312.

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