JOHN LOCKE A.D. 



1553- 



The 13. and 14. we remained still on land, and the 

 15. the patrone sent for us ; but by reason that one of 

 our company was not well, we went not presently, but 

 we were forced afterward to hire a boate, and to overtake 

 the ship tenne miles into the sea. At this Limisso 

 all the Venetian ships lade wine for their provision, and 

 some for to sell, and also vineger. They lade also great 

 store of Carrobi : for all the countrey thereabout adjoin- Can-obi, 

 ing, and all the mountaines are full of Carrobi trees, 

 they lade also cotton wooll there. In the sayd towne 

 we did see a certaine foule of the land (whereof there 

 are many in this Island) named in the Italian tongue 

 Vulture. It is a fowle that is as big as a Swanne, Vulture. 

 and it liveth upon carion. The skinne is full of 

 soft doune, like to a fine furre, which they use to 

 occupie when they have evill stomacks, and it maketh 

 good digestion. This bird (as they say) will eate as 

 much at one meale as shall serve him fortie dayes after, 

 and within the compasse of that time careth for no more 

 meate. The countrey people, when they have any dead 

 beast, they cary it into the mountaines, or where they 

 suppose the sayd Vultures to haunt, they seeing the 

 carion doe immediately greedily seaze upon it, and doe 

 so ingraft their talents, that they cannot speedily rise 

 agayne, by reason whereof the people come and kill 

 them : sometimes they kill them with dogs, and somtimes 

 with such weapons as they have. This foule is very 

 great and hardy, much like an Eagle in the feathers 

 of her wings and backe, but under her great feathers 

 she is onely doune, her necke also long and full of 

 doune. She hath on the necke bone, betweene the 

 necke and the shoulders, a heape of fethers like a Tassell, 

 her thighs unto her knees are covered with doune, her ' 

 legs strong and great, and dareth with her talents assault 

 a man. They have also in this Island a certaine small Great plenty 

 bird, much like unto a Wap^taile in fethers and making:, ^f_'^^pf^^ 



1 ' r 1^ • 1 • birds. 



these are so extreme rat that you can perceive nothing 

 els in all their bodies : these birds are now in season. 



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