giam da America by Fr. Appollinario da Conceicam, and is probably his work. It might serve as a L'envoy to the famous Liber Conformitatum. I possess a copy of that extraordinary book, the Bologna edition of 1590. It has a vignette at the beginning representing two arms nailed to one Cross, the right arm is that of Christ, the left that of St. Francis.
186. The Glib.
Among the many fashions which have been devised of wearing the hair, that of the wild Irish is the most savage. "Their beards and heads, (says Stanihurst[1]) they never wash, cleanse, nor cut, especially their heads; the hair whereof they suffer to grow, saving that some do use to round it, and by reason the same is never kembed, it groweth fast together, and in process of time it matteth so thick and fast together, that
- ↑ Holinshed. Vol. 6. p. 228.
