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LIB. iv. those which, are carried from Castille. Horses have mul 

 tiplied there, and are very excellent in many places ; yea, 

 in many partes there are races found as good as the 

 best in Spaine, as well for racing and for porupe as 

 also for travell : and therefore they vse horses most com 

 monly, although there be no want of mules, whereof there 

 are many, especially where they make their carriages by 

 land. There is no great numbers of asses, having no great 

 vse for them, neither for travell nor service. There are 

 some few cammells. I have scene some in Peru that were 

 brought from the Canaries, and have multiplied there a little. 

 In Santo Domingo, dogges have so multiplied in number 

 and bignes, as at this day it is the scourge and affliction 

 of that Hand : for they eate the sheepe, and go in troupes 

 through the fields. Such that kill them are rewarded like 

 to them that kill woolves in Spaine. At the first there were 

 no dogges at the Indies, but some beasts like vnto little 

 dogges, the which the Indians call Alco, and therefore they 

 call all dogges that go from Spaine by the same name, by 

 reason of the resemblance that is betwixt them. The In 

 dians doe so love these little dogges, that they will spare 

 their ineate to feede them, so as when they travell in the 

 countrie they carry them with them vpon their shoulders or 

 in their bosomes, and when they are sicke they keepe 

 them with them, without any vse, but onely for company. 



CHAP, xxxiv. Of some Beasts of Europe which the Spaniardes 

 found at the Indies, and how they passed thither. 



It is certaine that they have carried from Spaine all these 

 beasts whereof I have spoken, of which kindes there were 

 none at the Indies when they were first discovered about 

 a hundred yeares since; for besides that it may be wel 

 approved by witnesses at this day living, it is also a sufH- 



