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and Peru many wildebeaftes,as Lyons: (although the 

 be not like in greatnefle , fierceneffe , nor of the fame 

 colour redde , to the renovvmed Lyons of Africa.) 

 There arc' alfo many Tygers , very cruell > and more to 

 .the I&d/ans then io the Spaniardes : there ar&Iikewifc 

 Beares , but in no great aboundance : of Boares and 

 Foxes an infinite number. And yet if wee (hall fceke 

 for all thefe kindes of bcaftes in the Hands of Cuba* 

 Hijpatftota, lamaica, MargumtA , or Dominica, you frail 

 notfindeany. So as in thefayde Hands, although they 

 were very fertile, and of a great circuit , yet was there 

 notany kind of beaftes for fervice when the Spaniards 

 arrived , but at this day there are fo great troopes of 

 Horfes^Oxen, Kyne,Dogsand Hoggcs, which have 

 multiplied in fuch abundance , as now the Kine have 

 no certaine mafter, but belong to him that flial firft kil 

 them,beit on the mountaines or on the plaines 5 which 

 the faJiavsdo, onely to fave their hides.,whereof they 

 make great traffick, without any regard of the flefhto 

 eate it. Doggcs have fo increafed , as they march by 

 troopes , and cndammage the cattell no IcfTe then 

 wolves, which is a great inconvenience in thefe Hands. 

 There wants not onely beaftes in thefe Hands, butal- 

 fo birdesboth great and fmall . As forParrets^thereare 

 many that flic by flockes, but (as I have faid,) there are 

 few of any other kinde. I have not feene 5 nor heard of 

 any Partriges there, as in Pert*. Likewife, there arefevV 

 ofthofe beaftes, which at P^r they call Cuancos,m& 

 VicuriM,\fa to wildc Goates, very fwifte, in whofe fto- 

 macke they find the Beezars (tone , which many do 

 greatly value : fometimes you fliall finde them as bigge 

 as a hens egge, yea, halfe as bigge againe . They have 

 no other kindc of beaftes, but fuch as we call Indian 



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