Whereas the Greenland white bear has afforded great satisfaction to the nobility and gentry : this is to give notice, that there is lately arrived, a curious female creature, of an amphibious kind, which feeds on raw flesh, and spouts out water like a whale : it has full lips, like an Aethiopian, and is bearded like a goat ... .[not before 1735]engTitle from first line of text."N.B. To be shewn at Mrs. Motteux's, at the sign of Cupiennius's Head in Exeter Court in the Strand."Probably a fictitious imprint statement.First polar bear reference is from 1735 advertisment for a display at Charing-Cross (Did you ever see the like? or, Fun upon fun. London : Printed for T. Boreman, at the Cock, on Ludgate-HIll, 1735).The reference to Cupiennius is possibly a reference to a character of that name in Horace's Satires, who is a lecher and adulterer.The reference to the name is possibly a Mr. Motteux, who owned a London warehouse that sold china and muslin and other luxuries, and who died while visiting a house of ill repute. The name is probably a fiction, though it does encode a brothel.Not in ESTC.