SIR JOHN HAWKINS a.d. 



1564. 

 for victuals, and being olde, they are used for caryage of 

 necessaries : whose propertie is as hee is taught to kneele 

 at the taking of his loade, and unlading againe : his nature 

 is to ingender backward contrary to other beastes : of 

 understanding very good, but of shape very deformed, 

 with a little bellie, long misshapen legges, and feete very 

 broad of flesh, without a hoofe, all whole, saving the great 

 toe, a backe bearing up like a molehill, a large and thin 

 necke, with a little head, with a bunch of hard flesh, which 

 nature hath given him in his breast to leane upon. This 

 beast liveth hardly, and is contented with strawe and 

 stubble, but of force strong, being well able to carrie 500. 

 weight. In one of these Hands called Fierro, there is by Fierro. 

 the reports of the inhabitants, a certaine tree that raineth 

 continually, by the dropping whereof the inhabitants and 

 cattell are satisfied with water, for other water have they 

 none in all the Hand. And it raineth in such abundance, 

 that it were incredible unto a man to beleeve such a 

 vertue to bee in a tree, but it is knowen to be a divine 

 matter, and a thing ordeined by God, at whose power 

 therein wee ought not to marvell, seeing he did by his 

 providence as we read in the Scriptures, when the children 

 of Israel were going into the land of promise, feede them 

 with Manna from heaven, for the space of 40. yeeres. Of 

 the trees aforesaid wee saw in Guinie many, being of great Trees drop- 

 height, dropping continually, but not so abundantly as P^^^, '^^^^^' ^^ 

 the other, because the leaves are narrower, and are like ^^^^^' 

 the leaves of a peare tree. About these Hands are 

 certaine flitting Hands, which have beene oftentimes scene, 

 and when men approched neere them, they vanished : as 

 the like hath bene of these Hands nowe knowen by the 

 report of the inhabitants, which were not found of long 

 time one after the other : and therefore it should seeme 

 hee is not yet borne to whom God hath appoynted the 

 finding of them. In this Hand of Teneriff^e there is a hill 

 called The Pike, because it is piked, which is in heigth by The pike of 

 their reports twentie leagues, having both winter and Teneriffe. 

 summer abundance of snowe in the top of it : this Pike 



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