SIR JOHN HAWKINS ad. 



1565. 

 sort of pearles are found in seven or eight fadome water, 

 but the greatest in eleven or twelve fadome. 



The Floridians have pieces of unicornes homes which Unkomes 

 they weare about their necks, whereof the Frenchmen ^^^'^l^^^ '^!^^^^ 

 obtemed many pieces. Or those unicornes they have ^^n Souanam- 

 many ; for that they doe affirme it to be a beast with ma. 

 one home, which comming to the river to drinke, putteth 

 the same into the water before he drinketh. Of this 

 unicornes home there are of our company, that having 

 gotten the same of the Frenchmen, brought home thereof 

 to shew. It is therfore to be presupposed that there are 

 more commodities aswell as that, which for want of time, 

 and people sufficient to inhabit the same, can not yet 

 com.e to light : but I trust God will reveale the same 

 before it be long, to the great profit of them that shal 

 take it in hand. Of beasts in this countrey besides Beasts. 

 deere, foxes, hares, polcats, conies, ownces, & leopards, 

 I am not able certeinly to say: but it is thought that 

 there are lions and tygres as well as unicornes ; lions 

 especially; if it be true that is sayd, of the enmity 

 betweene them and the unicornes : for there is no beast 

 but hath his enemy, as the cony the polcat, a sheepe 

 the woolfe, the elephant the rinoceros ; and so of other 

 beasts the like: insomuch, that whereas the one is, the 

 other can not be missing. And seeing I have made 

 mention of the beasts of this countrey, it shall not be 

 from my purpose to speake also of the venimous beasts, 

 as crocodiles, whereof there is great abundance, adders 

 of great bignesse, whereof our men killed some of a yard 

 and a halfe long. Also I heard a miracle of one of these 

 adders, upon the which a faulcon seizing, the sayd adder Faukons in 

 did claspe her tail about her ; which the French captaine ^^°^^^^' 

 seeing, came to the rescue of the faulcon, and tooke 

 her slaying the adder; and this faulcon being wilde, 

 he did reclaim her, and kept her for the space of two 

 moneths, at which time for very want of meat he was 

 faine to cast her off. On these adders the Frenchmen 

 did feed, to no little admiration of us, and affirmed the 



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