Map Section F.

To the right a pelican and a crane are shown in a lake;

A pelican and a crane

to the right of them is a curious scene of beaver in the north. "They march off in droves to fell timber, which they chop away with their teeth. Then they transport the logs back to their dens in an incredible manner.

Beavers carry their wood

They make a wagon of one of their pack who is a useless worker, indolent, slothful, or frail with age, or in particular one who is a fugitive from another colony, by laying him feet upwards with his back on the ground. The logs are set and arranged between his hips and legs, and then they haul him along to their small dwellings, where the wood is unloaded" (Magnus 1998, III:886, taken from some earlier legends about beaver found in twelfth and thirteenth century Danish and Norwegian historians).

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