ator only can declare. There are many fiich as we have 



in the fea Q( Europe, as fliaddes, and alofes which come 



from the fea into the rivers; dorads, pilchards, and ma- 



ny other. There are others, the like I doc not thinke to 



havefeenein thefe partes, as thofe which they doe call 



C4rt#,which doe fomewhat refemble the trowt,and 



in new Spain they call them Bibos, they mount from 



the fea into the livers . I have notfeencanytf^^/ 



there, nor trowts, although fome lay therearein Ckilk. 



There are Towns in fome partes vpon the coaft of Peru, 



but they are rare,and fome are of opinion, that at a cer- 



taine time they do caft their fpawne in the Straight of 



Magellan, as they doe in Spain at the Straight ofGibraL 



tar, and for this reafon they finde more vpon the coaft 



ofc///<?, although thofe I have feene there, are not 



like to them in Spain. At the TIandes (which they call 



Barlovente) which are Cub*, Saint Dominique^ Port ri- 



que, and lamaique, they find a fifh which they call Ma. 



vati, a ftrange kinde oi fifh,if we may callitfifh, a crea- 



ture which ingenders her yoong ones alive, and hath 



teates , and doth nourifli them with milke, feeding of 



grailc in the fieldes , but in effed it lives continually in 



the water, and therefore they eate it as fi(h; yet when 



I did eate of it at SaintD^w/>/^<fonafriday,rhadde 



fome fcruple, not for that which is fpoken, but for that 



in colour and tafte it was like vnto morfelles of veale, (b 



isitgreene, and like vnto a cowe on the hinder partes. 



I didde woonder at the incredible ravening of the Ti- 



&*>mf,orfharkes, whenasldid fee drawne from one 



(that was taken in the Port) out of his gullet,a buchers 



great knife, a great yron hooke, and a peece of a co wes 



head with one whole home, neytherdoe I knoweif 



both were there,or no. I did fee in a creeke made with 



that 



