PECCARIES. 



LIB. iv. f ru i g there, exceede all other in bountie and greatnes ; and 

 they say the reason is, for that the water wherewith they 

 water it passeth by a land compassed with this dung, which 

 causeth the beautie of this fruite. So as these birdes have 

 not only the flesh to serve for meate, their singing for re 

 creation, their feathers for ornament and beautie, but also 

 their dung serves to fatten the ground. The which hath 

 bin so appointed by the soveraigne Creator for the service 

 of man, that he might remember to acknowledge and be 

 loyall to him from whom all good proceedes. 



CHAP, xxxviii. Of Beasts for the Chase. 



Besides the Beasts of Chase, whereof we have spoken, 

 which be common to the Indies and Europe, there are 

 others which I doe not remember to have scene here, vn- 

 lesse pcrhappes they have been brought from thence. 

 There are beasts called Sainos^ made like small hogges, 

 which have this singular to themselves, to have their navill 

 vppon the ridge of their backes : these go by troupes 

 through the woods ; they are cruell and nothing fearefull, 

 but, contrariwise, they assail, and have their tusks sharpe 

 as rasors, wherewith they make dangerous wounds and in 

 cisions, if such as hunt them put not themselves in safetie. 

 Such as hunt them, for the more safer killing of them, 

 climbe vp into trees, whither the Sainos or hogges come 

 presently in troupes, biting the tree when they cannot hurte 

 the man, and then with their launces they kill what they 

 will. They are very good to eate, but they must of neces- 

 sitie cut off the round peece where the navil growes vpon 

 the backe ; for otherwise, within a day they corrupt. There 

 is another kinde of little beast like to sucking pigges, and 



1 Peccaries. The Quichua word is Sinturu. 



