Birds. 



Fifh. 



Vermin. 





61% J M E%I C A. Chap. VIII. 



The Eagles that are here with their Claws, Engage with thofe that go about to 

 take them. 



TheCatamountains make fuch an exceeding noife at a certain hour, both in 

 the Night and in the Day, that it is heard two Leagues oftv 



The Marmosets, a little Beaft, biting the Catamountains and Apes in the Ears* 

 forces them to leap from one Tree to another. 



The black Beaft Quotto hath a Face like an old Woman, and hanging by the 

 Tail, fwings from one Tree to another. 



The Cufcary is a brown four-footed Creature, about the bignefs of a little Dog, 

 but hath the fliape of a Lyon. 



Moreover, Guiana produces Teal, Geefe, Crains, Phefants, Partridges, Pigeons, 

 Marlins, Snipes, Falcons, Plovers, and Parrots of all forts, befides many other 

 ftrange Fowls 5 amongft which the chiefeft are a fort whofe Feathers glitter like 

 Scarlet, and walk along in Rank and Fyle like Soldiers. 



The Sea produces abundance of Turbots, Soals, Thornback, yellow Salmon, 

 Sturgeon, Black-fim, Gurnets, Crabs, and Oyfters. 



Amongft other Fifties, the Qajfoorwa, which is fomewhat bigger than an Eel, is 

 very ftrange, having two Sights in each Eye, of which it always holds one above, 

 and the other underneath the. Water when it fwims. 



Here are alfo the great Fifties call'd Matiati and Num-eel, by which if any part of 

 a Man be touch'd, it immediately becomes ftiff. 



There are ljkevyife divers Vermine, which trouble the Countrey Guiana, among 

 which are Serpents, of thirty Foot long, that come out of the Water and feed on 

 the Land • they do little hurt, as not being poyfonous : but there are many of a 

 lelTer fize, whofe biting isfo venomous, that it caufes the Flefii of a Man to rot in 

 twenty four hours time : others there are which have forked Tails, and Tusks in 

 the Roof of their Mouthes. 



The Crocodiles here alio devour abundance of Cattel. 



The Scorpions, which are black, and refemble a Lobfter, breed under dry 



' Wood or Corn • their Stings are hid in their Tails, with which if any one be 



touch'd, he is fure to endure an intolerable pain, but without danger of lofing his 



Life for the prefent, yet nothing can perfectly cure the fame, except the Scorpion 



kill'd and laid on the Wound. 



The Bats here are as big as Pigeons, and they fuck the Blood of Men and 

 Beads fo gently, that they feldom perceive the fame. 



The Pifmires alfo do great mifchief, efpecially in fandy Grounds 5 and likewife 

 the Musketo's, whofe Stings caufe painful Swellings ; but thefemoft of all trouble 

 them that inhabit near the Sea fide on low Lands, infomuch that the Fiftier-men 

 bury themfelves in the Night in Sand, leaving oncly Holes to breathe at. 



Frogs and Toads alfo make a terrible noife here, and efpecially aftei Rain. 



The Soil is inferior to none in the World, for the production of Sugar - but the 

 general Commodities of the Countrey are Flax, Cotton, Hemp, the Berry Jnnoto, 

 which Dyes an excellent Orange colour, another Berry which Dyes a deep Blue, 

 a Tree whofe Leaves Dye a Red, and the Wood of another Tree whofe Juice Dye* 

 a Purple and Crimfon. 



Moreover, Guiana produces the Gums Lemma, 'Barattu, and Qarr'man, which be- 

 ing black and prickly, fmells very pleafantly, and cures the Head-ache, Bruifes, 

 Pains in the Limbs, Gouts, and green Wounds. The fame operation hath the 

 Gum fBaratta. 



Here are alfo good Sena, Bolus Jrmenius, Qaf?ia'Ftftula y Terra- Lemma, the Berry 



Strange kind 



Commodi- 

 ties of the 

 Countrey. 



