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fuck the blood of horfes, mules, and even men, 

 when they do not fecure the-rnfclves from them, 

 are a nuifance common to hot countries in 

 America 5 and fome of them are of a monftrous 

 bignefs. At Borja, and in divers other places, 

 they have deftroyed the great cattle which the 

 miflionaries had introduced there, and which be- 

 gan to multiply in thofe parts. 



Dampier, in his voyage round the world, 

 fays, in the ifland of Mindanao there are Bats 

 as big as Kites. Near the laft mentioned 

 ifland lies the ifland of Bats. Dampier fays 

 this ifland was the habitation of an incredible 

 number of great Bats, with bodies as big as 

 Ducks, or large fowls, and with vaft wings 5 

 for he faw at Mindanao one of this fort, and 

 judged the wings ftretched out in length could 

 not be lefs than feven or eight feet from tip to 

 tip -, for it was much more than any of them 

 could fathom with their arms when extended to 

 the utmoll. 



The reverend Mr. Hughes, in his Natural 

 Hiftory of Barbadoes, p. 68, defcribes a Bat 



different 



