CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



1588. 



the height of a cable, and hath many amies out of it, 



which refresh the whole yland, and almost every tree in 



it. The yland is altogether high mountaines and steepe 



valleis, except it be in the tops of some hilles, and downe 



below in some of the valleis, where marveilous store of 



all these kinds of fruits before spoken of do grow: there 



is greater store growing in the tops of the mountaines 



then below in the valleis : but it is wonderfuU laboursome 



and also dangerous travelling up unto them and downe 



againe, by reason of rhe height and steepenesse of the 



hilles. 



There is also upon this yland great store of partridges, Abundance of 



which are very tame, not makinor any great hast to flie M'^fJ'^g^^ ^« 



1 1 /i i_ . ^ ^ S. Helena. 



away though one come very neere them, but onely to 



runne away, and get up into the steepe cliffes : we killed 



some of them with a fowling piece. They differ very 



much from our partridges which are in England both in 



bignesse and also in colour. For they be within a little as 



bigge as an henne, and are of an ashe colour, and live in 



covies twelve, sixteen, and twentie together : you cannot 



go ten or twelve score but you shall see or spring one or 



two covies at the least. 



There are likewise no lesse store of fesants in the yland, Great store of 

 which are also marveilous bigge and fat, surpassing those fi^^^^^- 

 which are in our countrey in bignesse and in numbers of 

 a company. They differ not very much in colour from 

 the partridges before spoken of. 



Wee found moreover in this place great store of Guinie Turkies in 

 cocks, which we call Turkies, of colour blacke and white, g^^^H^^^^^^^^- 

 with red heads : they are much about the same bignesse 

 which ours be of in England : their egges be white, and 

 as bigge as a Turkies egge. 



There are in this yland thousands of goates, which the Exceeding 

 Spaniards call Cabritos, which are very wilde : you shall ««^^^^^ ^f 

 see one or two hundred of them together, and sometimes 

 you may beholde them going in a flocke almost a mile 

 long. Some of them, (whether it be the nature of the 

 breed of them, or of the country I wot not) are as big as 



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