284 SLOTHS. MONKEYS. 



LIB. iv. rpjjQ Chinchillas is another kind of small beasts, like squir 

 rels; they have a woonderfull sinoothe and soft skinne, 

 which they weare as a healthfull thing to comfort the 

 stomacke, and those partes that have neede of a moderate 

 heate ; they make coverings and rugges of the haire of these 

 Chinchillas, which are found on the Sierra of Peru, where 

 there is likewise a small beast very common, which they call 

 Cuyes, 1 and which the Indians hold for a very good meate ; 

 arid they are accustomed often to offer these Cuyes in their 

 sacrifices. They are like small conies, and have their borows 

 in the ground, and in some places they have vndermined all 

 the land : some are grey, some white, and some speckled. 

 There are other small animalles which they call Uiscachas, 2 

 and are like to hares, although they be bigger; they hunt 

 them and eate the flesh. Of common hares there are great 

 store in some parts. There are also conies in the realme 

 of Quito, but the good are come from Spaine. There is 

 another strange beast, the which for his great heavinesse 

 and slownesse in mooviug the} call Perico-ligero, 3 or the 

 little light doggc ; lice hath three nailes to every hand, and 

 mooves both hands and feete as it were by compnsse, and 

 very heavily : it is in face like to a monkie, and hath a shrill 

 crie; it climbeth trees, and eatcs ants. 



CHAP, xxxix. Of Micos or Indian, Monldes. 



Throughout all the forests, eyther of these Hands, of the 

 Tierra Firme, or of the Andes, there are infinite numbers 

 of Micos or Monkies, which are a kind of apes, but very 

 different, in that they have a taile ; yea, a very long one. 

 And amongest them there are some kinds which are thrise, 

 yea foure times bigger than the ordinary; some are all blacke, 



1 Guinea pigs. - Laf/idium Peruvianiim. * The sloth. 



