Htftorieoftbefnelies. lib. 3. 



that lea, a quarter of a horfc for plcafurehanging vpon 

 a ftakc, whither prefcntly came a company or thefe Tu 

 hurons, at the fmel thereof : and for the more pleafure, 

 this horfeflefli was hung iu theaire, I knowe not how 

 many hand breadth/rom the water 5 this company of 

 fifh flocke about it, leaping vp,and with a ftrange nim- 

 blenefte art off both flefli and bone off the horfeleg, 

 as if it had beene the ftalke of a lettuce ; their teeth be 

 ing as ftiarpe as a rafour. There are certaine final! -fifties 

 they call fatmbos, which cleave to thefe Tiburons^ ney- 

 ther can they drive them away , and they are fed with 

 that which falles from the Tiknrons . There are other 

 ffinall fifties, which they call flying fifties, the which arc 

 found within the tropickes, and in no other place, as I 

 thinke : they are purfued by the Ducatles^ and to efcapc 

 them they leape out of the fea , and goe a good way in 

 feheayre , and for this reafon they are called flying Fi 

 fties : they havewings as it were of linnen cloth,or of 

 parchment, which do fupporte them fome fpace in the 

 ayrc. There did one flie or leape into the ftiippe vvher- 

 in I went, the which I did fee, and obferve the fafliion 

 of his wings. 



In the Indian hiftories there is often mention made 

 oLtz>*rJs or CAynuns (as they call them) and they arc 

 the very fome which Plinit and the Antients call Cro 

 codiles, they findc them on the fea fide, and in hote ri- 

 vcrs/or in colde rivers there are none to be found. And 

 therefore they finde none vpon all the coaft of Peru vn- 

 to Payra, but forward they are commonly feene in the 

 rivers, Itisamoftfierccandcruellbeafl:,althoughitbe 

 flow and heavic. Hee goes hunting and feekes his prey 

 on the land, and what hee takes alive, he drownesit in 

 the water, yet dooth hee riot eate it, but out of the wa- 



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