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mdmCarthagwe . I have not feene nor heard fpeakc 

 of wilde boarcsj but of foxes and other wild beafts that 

 care their cattell andfowle, there are more than their 

 flicpheards would willingly have. Befides thefe beafts 

 that are furious and hurtfull , there are others that arc 

 profitable, and have notbeene tranfported by the Spa- 

 niardes, as ftaggesand diere, whereof there is great a- 

 boundanceinalltheforrefts. But the greateftparteis 

 a kinde of dicre without homes, at the Icaft, I have ne 

 ver fcene nor heard fpeake of other, and all are without 

 homes like vnto Cwcos. It feemes not hard to beleeve, 

 but is-almoft certain, that all thefe beafts for their light- 

 neiTe , and being naturally wilde,have palled from one 

 world to an other,by fome parts where they ioyne/ee- 

 ing that in the great Hands farre from the mainc land I 

 have not heard that there are any, though I have made 

 diligent inquiry. 



of Fewles which are heere, and are at ike Indies > And 

 how they could pajfc thither. 

 CHAP. 35. 



-- pr rEe may more eafilybeleeve the fame of birdeSj 

 V V and that there are of the fame kindes that wee 

 have,as partridges^urtles^pigeons, ftockdoves,quailes, 

 and many forts of falcons, which they fend from New 

 Sfawe, and Peru, to the noblemen of Sfaine , for they 

 make great accompt of them. There are alfo Herons 

 and Eagles of diverfe kindes- and there is no doubt but 

 1 thefe birds & fuch like, have (boner paflcd thither than 

 * lions,tygres ; and ftagges . There arelikewife at the It- 

 dies great numbers of parrots, efpccially vpon the An- 

 dc$ of Peru, and in the Hands of Port Ricco and faint J?^- 



