would fall vppon them, pull off their attire,and would 

 fecke to bite them. 



This may be an addition which I have not feene,but 

 I doe not thinke there is any beaft in the world approa- 

 cheth fo neare the conversion of a man , as this mon 

 key dorh . They report fo many things,which for fearc 

 Ifliouldebethoughtto give credite to fables, or they 

 fliould befo efteemed, I tbinke belt to omitte, bleffing 

 the Author of all creatures , in that hee vrould create at 

 kinde of beaft, onely for the recreation and delight'of 

 man . Some report that they carried ihefe iMictsot 

 Monkies to Solomon from the Weafr -Indies but for my 

 parte, I holdeit was from the Eaft Indies. 



Ofyicugnes,andTArttgncsifPttu.. CHAP. 40. 



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Mongft the moft remarkable things at the Indies 

 of Pent , be the Vicngnts, and fheepe of the coun 

 ts ej n*f ti ie,as they call them , which are tra&able beafts and 

 ofgreatprofite- ther/V^warewilde^and theflieepc 

 are tame. Some thinke that the Vicugnes are thofc 

 which Arittotky Plittit,and other Authors call Caprcas, 

 vy hichare wildegoates, and in truth they havcfome 

 refemblance, for the lightnes they have in the woodes 

 and mountaines , but yet they arc no goates > for the 

 Vicugms have no homes , as thofe have, whereof Art* 

 nolle ifiakes mention ; neither are they the goates of 

 the Eaft Indies fiom whom they draw the Bezar ft on e; 

 for if they be of thatkinde,it were a diverfe one , as in 

 the race of dogges , the maftie is divers from the grcy- 

 hoimd.The Vicugnts of P^arcnot thofe beafts which 

 carrie the Bezar ftone , in the Province of new Sfaine, 

 which there they cal 9tffyrtp$M that they are a kind of 



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