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(where they vnlade,)fb many hides ,and fb much mar- 

 chandize . There arc alfb great numbers of goates, 

 whole cheefe profitc is their tallowe, befides their kid- 

 milke and other commodities, for that both rich and 

 poore vfe this tallowe for lightcs , for as there is a great 

 quantitie , fo do they make very good accoumpt of it; 

 yea, more then of oyle, but all the tallow they vfe is 

 ondy of the males. They vfe theirskinnes for fhooes, 

 yet I hold them not fo good, as thofe which are carri 

 ed from CaftiU. Horfe have multiplied there , and are 

 very excellent in many places yea in many partes 

 there are races found as good as the beft in Spaine 5 as 

 well for palling of a carrier, and for pompe, as alfo for 

 travell : and'thereforethey vfehorfes moft commonly, 

 although there be no want of moyles , whereof there 

 are many, efpecially where they make their carriages 

 by land. There is no great numbers of afles, having no 

 great vfe for thcm,neither for travell nor fervice.There 

 are fome few cammells; I have feenc fome in Ferity 

 that were brought from the Canaries , and have multi 

 plied there alittle. Iti S. Dominique, dogges have fb 

 multiplied in number and bignes,asat-this day itisthe 

 fcourge and affliction of thatlland: for they eatethe 

 flieepc,and go in troupes through the fields. Such that 

 kill them are rewarded like to them that kill woolves 



in Spaifls.ht the firft there were no dogges at the todies 

 but fome beads like vnto little dogges , the which the 

 Indians call Alco^x\d therefore they call all dogges that 

 go fro;n Sfw&j&y thefamc name, by reafbn of the re- 

 fcmblance that is betwixt them. The Indians doe fo 

 love thefe little dogges, that they will fpare their meate 

 to feede them, fo as when they travell in the countrie, 

 they carrie them with them vpon their flioulders, or in 



their 



