* lib.j. 



habited, which at Ptrmhey call Punas ({peaking of the 

 fecond poyn t we promifeaj where the quallirie of the 

 ayrecuttcth off mans life without feeling. In former 

 time the Spaniardes went from P<r/* 3 totherealmcof 

 cMltby thismountaine, but at this day they do pafle 

 commonly by fea, and fometimes alongft the fideofit. 

 And though that way be laborious and troublefome, 

 yet is there not fo great daunger as by the mountaine, 

 where there are Plaines, on the which many men have 

 periftied and died, and fomctirnes ha ve fcaped by great 

 bappe,whereof fbme have remained lame. There runs 

 a (mall breath,which is.not very ftrong nor violenr,but 

 proceedes in fuch forte, that men fall downe dead,in a 

 manner without feeling,or at the kaft, they loofe their 

 feete and handcs : the which may feeme fabulous 3 yec 

 isitmofttrue* 



I have knowne and frequented long, the Gennerall 

 ItromeCtftiftAi theaunticntpeoplerofc^/?^ who had 

 loft three or foure toes, which felioffin palling the de-^ 

 {artofC^/7/?, being perifhed with thisairc, and when 

 he came to looke on them, they were dead, and fell off 

 without any paine, evcnasarotten Apple falleth from- 

 the tree. This Captaine reported, that of a good army 

 which hcehad conduced by thatplace, imhe former 

 yeeres, fince the difcoverie of this kingdome by Alma- 

 gro,?L great partof the men remained dead there,whofe. 

 bodies he found lying in thedefart, without any ftinlc 

 or corruption -adding thervntoone thing very ftrange> 

 that they found a yongboy alive,and being examined 

 how hee had lived in that place, hccfaide, that hee laie 

 hidden in a little cave , whence hec came to catte the 

 flefh of a dead horfe with a little knife 5 and thus had he 

 nouriflicd himfelfealpngtime, with I know not how 



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