ibides

Updated: May 22, 2025

At the farthest end was a prospect of the land of Egypt; the Nile with its crocodiles, marmosets, ibides, monkeys, trochiloses, or wrens, ichneumons, or Pharoah's mice, hippopotami, or sea-horses, and other creatures, its guests and neighbours.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5