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TRUE HISTORY.
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inhabited with unsociable people, for in it were dwelling wild men named Bucephalians, that had horns on their heads like the picture of Minotaurus,A monster who was half a bull and half a man, begotten on Pasiphaë, the wife of Minos, King of Crete, by a bull, with which she fell in love, etc. Ovid. Met. where we went ashore to look for fresh water and victuals, for ours was all spent: and there we found water enough, but nothing else appeared: only we heard a great bellowing and roaring a little way off, which we thought to have been some herd of cattle, and going forwards, fell upon those men, who espying us, chased us back again, and took three of our company: the rest fled towards the sea.
Then we all armed ourselves, not meaning to leave our friends unrevenged, and set upon the Bucephalians as they were dividing the flesh of them that were slain, and put them all to flight, and pursued