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There are tobe found here verie few hearbes and trees 
lyke vnto thoſe of Spayne , for that the earth doeth not 
beare them: but in the newe Spayne there are more of 
them than in any other parte of theIndias . For when it 
was conquered, they foun de many trees aud hearbes and 
Plantes lyke vnto thoſe of Caſtile, and birdes and beaſtes 
likewiſe . Wee haue heere Snakes whichbringadmiration _ 
to ſuch as fee them. for they be as greate as men, which are 
for the moſt parte tame, and do no hurt. Here are Spiders 
as great as Oranges, and verie venomous. It raineth Todes 
as greate as thoſe of Spaine , which the Indians doe eate 
roſted, for they are a people which eate all Kinde of vend- 
mous beaftes. There be fo many buyttes, which breede 
in many Llandes, that are in the fea, neere to the lande, 
that they eate vp the Cartel , and ſuche numbers of them 
chat it is wonderful. andas the keepers of them bee blacke 
fo they care little for them. One thing doeth make mee 
maruel, that the kine which are bread in the mountaines, 
being brought to the plaine grounde, doe all dye. Iſawe a 
friende of mine that brought 300. Kine to bee wayed, and 
they ſtaid a tyme before they were wayed, and by litle and 
litle, in one moneth there remained not one, but all dyed, 
And that which is more to bee maruelledat, is, that they 
died all trembling, and conſumed. Some there be that doe 
attribute it to the mountaines which is a countrie moſte 
colde andit raineth euery day, and in the plaine Countries 
here there is no rayne, but it is hotte, and as they moue 
from one extremiticto an other they die, that truely is 
athynge worthieof conſideration, to fee howe that in the 
{pace of eight Leagues, little more orleſſe, which are of 
Plaine grounde from the coaſt to the Mountayne, bya 
long valeof more thenone thouſande Leagues, it neuer 
raynethin them, and in the mountaynes it rayneth euerie 
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a. ae Vanes erflande, that the eight day of 
