Chap. IV. 



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The Birds Guacamayes f which arc red and blue, are like a PeruanGoofa Bw ' 2 



Moreover, the Countrcy yields brave Horfes, Goats, Sheep, Rabbets, and Foxes ; *««*: 

 alfo wild Dogs, Leopards, Lyons, and Tygers. 



The wild Hogs which breed here have their Navels on their Backs, and have 

 no Tails, they fmell exceeding ftrong, and feed together in great Companies. 



The Taquatrin, a certain Beaft proper to thofe Parts, hath a Bag under its Belly, 

 in which it generally carries feven or more young ones, a"nd hath alfo a bald Tail - 

 it creeps into Houfes in the Night to ileal Hens. 



Here is alfo a certain Beaft (whofe Name we find not) abou* thebignefs of a 

 Rabbet, and like a Rat, and carries its young dhes on its back whenfoe're iccomes 

 abroad. 



The Serpents, which are very numerous here, trouble the Inhabitants excee- 

 dingly, efpecially near the Village Ecatepeque, where there are fuch an abundance 

 on two little Hills, that none dares approach them 5 fome of them arc very poy* 

 fon6us, for if touched with a Stick, the Poyfon runs up the fame : and whoever are 

 anointed with the Blood of a dead Serpent, die a lingring Death. John de Laet re- 

 lates, that the Indians took one which carried thirty young ones, which being a 

 Finger long, crep up and down immediately -and the old one, being above twenty 

 Foot long, ferv'd the Natives for Venifon. 



Amongft other Beafts is alfo the Teut)?lacokaubqui 9 "Of Fortrefs of the Serpents • 

 it hath a Head like an Adder, thick Belly, flittering Scales, a black Back, fprinkicd 

 with white CrolTes ; at its Tail* the**growff yearly a Bone, 'with which it makes a 

 noifc when it ftirs ; its poyfonbus Teeth deftroy thoft Which are bit therewith in 

 twenty four Hours, unlefs the part which is wounded be held in the Earth fo long 

 till the pain be over. Notwithftandingche noife, terrible afpe&,and geftures of this 

 Animal, the Indian Hunters make nothing to take the fame by the Tail, ahd wrap 

 it up in Linnen, and carrying it home make it tame. It is able to live a whole Year 

 without either Meat or Drink * its Head when 'cut off grows to the bignefs bf a 

 Man's Thigfoin ten dayi time. 



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