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CHAP, xxxvi. How it should be possible that at the Indies 



there should be anie sortes of beasts, whereof the like are 



no where else. 



[it were a matter more difficult to shew and prove, what LlB - IV - 

 beginning many and sundry sorts of beasts had, which are 

 found at the Indies, of whose kindes we have none in this 

 continent. For if the Creator hath made them there, wee 

 may not then alleadge nor flie to Noahs Arke, neither was 

 it then necessary to save all sorts of birds and beasts, if 

 others were to be created anew. Moreover, wee could not 

 affirme that the creation of the world was made and 

 finished in sixe days, if there were yet other new kinds to 

 make, and specially perfit beasts, and no lesse excellent J 

 than those that are knowen vnto vs. If we say then that 

 all these kindes of creatures were preserved in the Arke by 

 Noah, it followes that those beasts, of whose kindes we 

 finde not any but at the Indies, have passed thither from 

 this continent, as we have saide of other beasts that are 

 knowne vnto vs. This supposed, I demand how it is 

 possible that none of their kinde shoulde remaine heere ? 

 and how they are found there, being as it were travellers 

 and strangers. Truly it is a question that hath long held 

 me in suspense. I say for example, if the sheep of Peru, 

 and those which they call Pacos and Huanacus, 1 are not 

 found in any other regions of the worlde, who hath carried 

 them thither ? or how came they there ? seeing there is no 

 shew nor remainder of them in all this worlde. If they 

 have not passed from some other region, how were they 

 formed and brought foorth there ? It may be God hath 

 made a new creation of beasts. That which I speake of 

 these Pacos and Huanacus may be said of a thousand 

 different kindes of birdes and beasts of the forrest, which 

 1 Alpacas and Huanacus. 



