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are very expert at bleeding. Moft of the 

 inhabitants, whether Europeans or Na- 

 tives, in this country, fleep in hammocks, 

 as being more fecure from fnakes and 

 poifonous infects than beds, and their 

 feet are thereby expofed to thefe animals, 

 who with great dexterity imperceptibly 

 open the veins, and fuck the blood, un- 

 til they are fatisfied ; and it is not un- 

 frequent for perfons to wake, and find 

 themfelves faint and wet with their own 

 blood. They likewife fuck the blood 

 of Horfes, Mules, Oxen, &c. in the 

 fame manner. 



The Sloth is alfo common in Guiana, 

 being of the fize of a Fox ; its fore feet 

 are longer than thofe behind, and each 

 foot has three claws. But the peculiar 

 charafteriftic of this animal is, his infu- 

 perable averfion to motion, being of all 

 animals the moft indolent and inactive : 

 Upon level ground they are unable to 

 L 2 move 



