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whereof there are two kindes. Some are tame and go in LlB - IV - 

 troupes, as in the Land of Charcas, and other Provinces of 

 Peru, as also in all New Spain e : from these tame kine they 

 draw such profite as they do in Spaine, that is, the flesh, 

 butter, calves, and oxen, to till the ground. The other 

 kinde is wilde, which live in the mountaines and forrests, 

 and therefore they tame them not, neither have they any 

 master to whom they are proper, both for the roughnes 

 and thickenes of the forrest, as also for the great multitude 

 there is, and he that first killes them is the master, as of 

 any wilde beast. These wilde kine have so multiplied in 

 Santo Domingo and thereabouts, that they troope together in 

 the fields and woods by thousands, having no master to 

 whom they appertaine. They hunt these beasts onely for 

 their hides ; they go to the field on horse-backe with their 

 weapons to hough them, coursing the kine : and when they 

 have strucken any and staied them, they are their owne ; 

 they flay them and carry the hides home, leaving the flesh, 

 which every one neglects for the aboundance there is, so as 

 some have testified in this Hand, that in some places the 

 aire hath been corrupted with the aboundance of these 

 stinking carcases. The hides they bring into Spaine is one 

 of the best revenues of the Hands and of New Spaine. In 

 the fleet, the yere 1587, there came from Santo Domingo 

 35444 hides, and from New Spaine 64350, which they value 

 at 96532 peeces, so as when they discharge one of these 

 fleetes it is admirable to behold the river of Seville, and in 

 the arsenall (where they vnlade) so many hides and so much 

 marchandize. There are also great numbers of goates, 

 whose cheefe profite is their tallowe, besides their kid-milke 

 and other commodities, for that both rich and poore vse this 

 tallowe for lightes ; for, as there is a great quantitie, so do 

 they make very good accoumpt of it ; yea, more then of oyle, 

 but all the tallow they vse is onely of the males. They vse 

 their skinnes for shooes, yet I hold them not so good as 



