of the Ifldnd of Barbadoes. 



Flyes we have of fo many kinds , Cfrom two inches long with the i 

 great horns, which we keep in boxes, and are (hewed by Joim Tre- 

 defcan amongft his rarities J totheleaft A tome, as it wouki be a 

 weary work to fet them down , as alfo the fiidden produftion of 

 them, from Nothing to Maggets, from Maggets toFlycs, and there 

 is not only a race of all thefe kinds , that go in a generation , but 

 upon new occafions, new kinds, as, after a great downfall of rain , 

 when the ground has been extreamly moiftned, and Ibftned with the 

 water, I have walked out upon a dry v;alk (which I made ffly felf) 

 in anevening, and there came about me an army of fuch flyes, as I had | 

 never feen before, nor after 5 and they rofc, as I conceived, out of the | 

 earth : They were as big bodied as Bees , but far larger wings, harm 

 they did us none, but only lighted on us ^ their colour between alh- 

 colour and purple. 



The next of thelc moving little Animals, are Ants, orPifmires, and 

 thole are butof a fmallfize, but great in induftry ^ and that which 

 gives them means to attain to their ends , is, they hare all one foul. 

 If Ifhouldfay, they are here or there, Ifhould do th^ wrong 5 for 

 they arc every where, under ground, where any hollovv or loofe earth 

 is, amongft the roots of trees, upon the bodies, branches, leaves, and 

 fruit of all trees, in all places, without the houfes and within, upon 

 the fides, walls, windows, and roofs without 5 and on the floors, 

 fide- walls, leal ings , and windows within 5 tables, cupbords, beds, 

 ftools, all are covered with them, fo that they are a kind of Ubiqui- 

 taries. The Cockroaches are their mortal enemies, and though they 

 are not able to do them any mifohief, being living , (by reafon they 

 are far ftronger and mightier than a hundred of them, and if they Ihould 

 force any one of them with multitudes, he has the liberty of his wings 

 to make his cfoape) yet, when they find him dead , they will divide 

 him amongft them into Atomes^ and to thatpurpofo, they carry him 

 home to their houfes or nefts. We fometimes kill a Cockroach, and 

 throw him on the ground, and mark what they will do with him 3 

 his body is bigger than a hundred ofthsm , and yet they will find 

 the means to take hold ofhim, and lift him up 5 and having him a- 

 bove ground , away they carry him , and fome go by as ready 

 afliftants, if any be weary ^ and fome are tlie Officers that lead and 

 fliew the way to the hole into which he maft pals 5 and if the Van- 

 curriers perceive, that the body of the Cockroach lies cro(s, and 

 will not pals through the hole, or arch , through which they mean 

 to carry him , order is given , and the body turned end wife , and ; 

 this done a foot before they come to the hole, and that without any 

 ftop or ftay ^ and this is obfervable , that they never pull, contrary 

 wayes. 



Thofo that are curious , and will prevent their coming on their 

 ■ Tables, Cupbords, or Beds, have httle hollows of timber , fiU'd with 

 water, for the feet of thefe to ftand in ^ but all this will not fcrve 

 their turn 5 for they will fome of them , go up to the fciling, and let 

 themfelvcs foil upon the teafters of the Beds, Cupbords, and 

 Tables. 



To prevent them from coming on our flielvcs where our meat j 



