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the flefli to fervc for meate,their finging for recreation, 

 their feathers for ornament and beautie , but alfb their 

 dung ferves to fatten the ground. The which hath bin 

 {b appointed by the fovcraigne Creator, for the fef- 

 tice of man >that he might remember to acknowledge 

 arid be loyall to him from whom all good proceedes. 



OfBuftsfcrthe Chaff s. CHAP. 38. 



T> Efides the Beafts of Chafe , whereofwc have fpo- 

 JLJ ken, which be common tothe/^/wand^^^ 

 there are others which I doe not remember to have 

 feene heere,vnleflfc perhappes they have been brought 

 from thence. There are beafts called Sainos, made like 

 fin'^Jl. hogges , which have this fingular to themfelves, 

 to have their navill vppon the ridge of their backes: 

 thefe go by troupes through the woods, they are crucll 

 and nothing fearefull,but contrariwifc they a(faile,and 

 have their tallcnts fliarpe as rafors, wherewith they 

 itiake dangerous wounds and incifions, if fuch as hunt 

 them put not themfelves in fafetie.Such as hunt them, 

 (for themore fafer killingof them,) they climbe vp into 

 trees, whither the Saints or hogges come prdentlyin 

 troupes , biting the tree when they cannot hurte the 

 man , and then with their launccj they kill what they 

 will. They are very good to cate, but they muft of ric- 

 ccffitiecut off the round pecce where thenavilgrowes 

 vpon thcbacke; for otherwife within^ day they cor 

 rupt. There is another kinde oflitde bcaftlike to fuc. 

 Ving pig ges, and they call them Guadatwaias. I am in 

 doubt whether there were any f wine at the Indies, 

 Before the Spaniard es came thither, like to thefe in 

 for that in the difcovcrie ofthe Hands ofSob- 



matf, 



