Letter. 
~ eaufe and where the beaſt had the ſtones, that we had there 
oe 
dead, and they were ina certane little purfe that the Maw 
of the beafté hath , which is where the Hearbes that they 
feede onare when they returne to chew ther Cudde. And 
foorthwiththe Indian wou!de haue killed the Boy, for the 
aduife that he had giuenvnto vs, becauſe the Indians doe 
efteeme much of theſe ſtones; & they offer thé vuto their 
Gods, or to their praying places here their Idols are, vn- 
to whom they offer the things that are moſt precious. And 
fo they do offer theſe ſtones a; a thing of great eftimation; 
and aſſo gold, ſiluer and precious ſtones, beaſts & children, 
And after warde wee vnderſtood that thofe Indians which 
went with vs had facrifized the boy, whom with our hun 
e, had forgotten, and they carried him away from 
ys by thofe Mountaines, where we neuer more ſawe him. 
And it it a thing tobeconfidered that in all partes of the 
Indias, there haue not byn founde any of theſe beaſtes, vn- 
les it were in the high lulles & mountaines of this realmof 
the Peru. For I haue gone ouer all the countries of Mexico, 
and by al the prouinces & realms of the Pera, & Iflands of 
Marenon,and by the Florida, and by many other partes of 
our Occidentall Indias, & I neuer faw any of thofe beaftes, 
but in thofe mountaines of the Peru. Sir, with all diligence 
in the world as much as I coul de obtaine, & know of Indi · 
ans beeing friendes concerning the ſtones which they take 
out of thofe beaſtes, is that they are maruellous good a- 
gainſt all venime, and againſt all fortes of poyfon, as well in 
meates as in any other fort. & in the euils of the heart, & to 
expell and to kil wormes, & in woundspoifoned,w hichare 
made with mortall hearbes, which the wilde Indian peaple 
