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A True and ExaB Hiflory 



skim'd. They never fting any body, nor is there any venomous beaft 

 in the Ifland. The next to thefe are Scorpions, of which, fome of them 

 I are as big as Rats , frnooth, and coloured like a Snake , Ibmewhat 

 : blewer.their bellies inclining to yellow,very nimble and quick to avoid 

 their purfuers yet, the Snakes will now and then take them^between 

 whom there is a great conflid, before the quarrel be decided 5 for 

 the Scorpions that are large, are very ftrong, and will maintain the 

 fight fometimes half an hour; I have feen them wreftle together a good 

 part ofthat time : But in conclufion, the Snakes get the better, and 

 devour the other. Thefe Scorpions were never known to hurt man 

 or beaft. Toads or Frogs we have none. 



Lizards we had in great plenty, but the Cats kill thcmfofaft in the 

 houfes, as they are rhuch leflened in their number. This little Animal 

 loves much to be wher^; men are, and are delighted toftand and gaze 

 in their faces, and hearken to their difcourle. Thefe v/ith us,i think, 

 i are different from thofc of E//r^pc 3 the bodies of ours are about four 

 inches long, the tail near as much, hedded not much unlike a Snake 5 

 their colour,^hen they arepleafed, a puregrafs-green on the back, 

 "blewifti toward the fide, andyellovviO:! on thebelly 3 four legs, and 

 thofe very nimble .• ,.When they fee at diftance fbme of their own 

 J kind, that they are angry with, they fwell a little bigger, and change 

 Ith'eir colour, from green 'to ruflct orhair-colbur , w'hich abates much 

 ofthcir beauty , for their green is vetypleafant and beautiful : Cold 

 ■ th ey are as Frogs. Next to thefe are Co'ckroches,a creature of the big- ; 

 I iicfs andfhape of a Beetle; but of a pure hair-colour, which would 

 1 ^t him off the better, if he had not an ugly wabling gate, but that 

 makes him unhandfome. He appears in the evening when 'tis dark, 

 and \vilI5 when he pleafes, fly to your bed, vvhcn he finds you fleep- 

 ■fng, and bite your skin, till hfe fetch blood, if you doubt wake 5 and 

 • if you take a Candle to fearch for him, he fhiftsaway and hides him- 

 ' felf, as the Purneles do in Tta/j. - The Negroes, who have thick skins, 

 , and by reaibnof their hard labour , fleep foundly at night, are bitten 

 To,, as far as the breadth of both your hauds together^ their skins are 

 : rac-dV as if it were done with a curry-comb. Next to thefe tormen- 

 t6rs, are Musketos , who bite and fling wotie' than the Gnats and 

 Stouts, that fting Cattle mEngUnd^ (and a,re commonly felt in marifti 

 gi'dund). And next to them Mtri wings, and they are of fb fmalla fize, 

 and fbthfn and aertalJ, as you can hardly difcern them , but by the 

 noife of their vvings, which is like a fnlall bugle horn , at a great di- 

 i ftancc: Where they fting,there will rife a little knob, as big as a peafe, 

 I and laftfo a whole day 5 the rilark will not be gone in twenty four 

 I hours. Caterpillars We have fbfflctimcs in abundance, and they do 

 I Very great harm ; for, they light upon the leaves of our Potatoes, 

 which we call Slips, and eat them all away, and come fb low, as to 

 eatof theFvoot too : And theonely remedy we havcj is, to drive a 

 iiDck of Turkics into the place where they are, and they will devour 

 them. The harms thefe vermine do us, is double; firft, in the flips, 

 which is the food we give our Horfcs, and iscaftintothe rack; and, 

 ill our Potatoes, being the root of thefe flips , which we t)'ur felves 

 feed upon. 



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