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your worſhip, for that I vnde ſtoode of your bookes, and 
forthe fame that you haue in theſe partes, which is greate, 
although Lk no e you not, yet I was willing to take theſe 
paines, vhich is acontentment to mee. You write in your 
book, giuing knowledge of the Bezaar ſtone, & ſet downe 
the ſignes of the beafts which haue them: which being cõ- 
ſidere d. we haue happened vpon a kind of beaftes that liue 
in the mountaines of this countrie;whichare much like to 
theepe or kiddes which your worship ſpeaketh of, which 
are inthe Indias of Portugall, which breede and haue theſe 
ſtones, ofthe which there are many in this countrie, in the 
mountaines, and colde countries. They are for the moſte 
ofa darke red colour, they are fed with healthfull hearbes 
whereof is greate plentie in the Mountaines here theſe 
beaſts do feede: they be verie ſwift, inſomuch that they can- 
not bee hunted. but with the hande Gunne : they hauen 
* hornes; and in that onely they doe differ from them of 
che Eaſt India, for inall the reſtthey are the ſanme. 
The 15-day of Iune in this yere of 1568-1 & certain gene For they 
tlemen my friends went to the mountaines, to hunt. & we paye fourde 
were a hunting fiue daies, and we killed ſome of thoſe he Bex ar 
beaſtes, which I haue ſpoken of And as wee went for this fene. 
purpoſe, thinking that they were ofthe kind. of them of the 
Faft India: we caried your book with vs, and wee opened 
one of them, the greateſt that wee hunted, and oldeſt wee 
coulde finde, & we found no ſtones in his bellie, nor in any 
other parte ot him, nor any other thing, whereby we belee- 
ued that they were not the ſame kinde of beaſis with thoſe 
of the Eaſt India · And wee asked of certaine Indians that 
went to ferue vs, here theſe beaſtes had their ſtones, & as 
they are our enemies, and would not that we ſhould know 
their ſecretes, theyanſwered vs that they knew 2 of 
thefe ftanes,vosill aise boy-whish-was amongft hem dee 
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ing an Indian of the age of 12.yeares,feeing that wee were : 
fo deſirous to kno we the ſa 3 ing vs the ſecret eee 5 
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