Ztyjiturall and Morall 



of fmall beads, likefquirrels, they have a woondcrful! 

 fmootheand foft skinne, which they weare as a health- 

 full thing to comfort the ftomacke , and thofe partes 

 that have needc of a moderate heate 5 they make cove- 

 / rings and rugges of the haire of thefe ChinchMes, which 



are found on the Sicrre of Peru , where there is like wife 

 a fmall bcaft very common which they caL C^jf^, and 

 which the Indians hold for a very good meate,and they 

 are accuftomed often to offer thefe Cujcs in their fa- 

 crifices. They are like fmall conies , and have their bo- 

 rows in the grocmd , and in fbme places they have vn- 

 dermincd all the land : fome are grey,fome white, and 

 (bmefpeckled. There are other (mall animalles which 

 they call ViftachaJ&rid. are like to hares, although they 

 be bigger, they hunt them and eate the flefli. Of com 

 mon hares these are great flore in fomeparts. Thercarc 

 alfo connies in the realme of guitto, but the good arc 

 come from Sprint. There is another ftrange beaft , the 

 which for his great heavinefle, and flowneffc in moov- 

 %*^ing, they cz\\Perico-ligero, or the little light dogge,hec 

 hath three nailes to every hand, and mooves both hand 

 and feete , as it w^rc by compafle and very heavily : it 

 is in face like to a monkie , and hath a flirill crie it cli- 

 meth trees, and eates Ants. 



Of Mi cos or IwkAfl Monkics. CHAP 39. 



THroughoutallthe mountaines , eytherof thcfel- 

 lands of the firme land, orofthc/flwfef, there are 

 infinite numbers ofMices or Monkies,which are a kind 

 ofapes,but veiy different, in that they have a taile, yea 

 averylong one. And aniongeft them there are fbme 

 kinds which arc thrife, yea fourc times bigger than the 



ordinary* 



