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and beautiful island, wherein were camphor-trees,
under each of which trees a hundred men might
shade themselves. When any one desireth to
obtain some camphor from one of these trees,
he maketh a perforation in the upper part of
it with something long, and catcheth what de-
scendeth from it. The liquid camphor floweth
from it, and concreteth like gum. It is the
juice of that tree; and after this operation, the
tree drieth, and becometh firewood. In that
island too is a kind of wild beast called the
rhinoceros, which pastureth there like oxen and
buffaloes in our country; but the bulk of that
wild beast is greater than the bulk of the camel,
and it eateth the tender leaves of trees. It is
a huge beast, with a single horn, thick, in the
middle of its head, a cubit in length, wherein
is the figure of a man. And in that island are
some animals of the ox-kind. Moreover, the
sailors and travellers, and persons in the habit
of journeying about in the mountains and the
lands, have told us, that this wild beast which
is named the rhinoceros lifteth the great elephant
upon its horn, and pastureth with it upon the
island and the shores, without being sensible of
it; and the elephant dieth upon its horn; and
its fat, melting by the heat of the sun, and