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galleries that reach Come of them fix or feven yards feveral wayes , of 

 the {ame earth they do their nefts ^ fo that for ftich a diftance as that, 

 they arc not to be perceived, by any of their enemies, and commonly, 

 their Avenues go out amongft leaves, ormofs, or Ibme other Covert, 

 that they may not be perceiv'd but the moft of thefe are in the woodsy 

 for we havedeftroyed their ncfts, and their galleries within doors (b 

 I often, as they are weary of biiildingj and fo quit the hou(e : 1 can fay 

 nothing of thefe,but that they are the quickeft at their work of building, 

 j ofany little Creatures that ever I (aw. Spiders we have, the beautifullelt 

 ! and largeft that I have feen, :ind the moft curioushi their webs 5 they 

 ! are not at all Poyfonous. 



One fort more of thefe harmful Animals there are , which we call 

 Chegoes^ and thefe are fo little that you would hardly think them 

 ableto doany harm at all, and yet thefe will do more mifchief than the 

 Ants, and ifthey were as numerous as harmful, theue were nainduring 

 ofthemj theyareofa fhape-, not much unlike a Louie, but no bigger 

 than a mite that breeds inchcefe , his colour blewiili ; an IndLm has 

 laid one of them, on a (lieet of white paper, and with my fpedacles on 

 I could hardly dilcern him ; yet this very little Enemy , can and will 

 do much mifchief to mankind. This vermine will get thorough your 

 Stocken, andin a pore of yourskin, infbme part of your feet, com- 

 monly under the nail of your toes, and there make a habitation to lav 

 his off fpring,as big as a fmall Tare,or the bag ofa Bee,which will caufe 

 )^ou to go very lame, and put you to muchfmarting pain. T\\Qlndia.n 

 women have the befl skill to take them out, which they do by putting 

 in a fmall pointed pin or Needle, at the hole where he came in , and 

 winding the point about the bag, loolen him from the flelh, and fb 

 take him out. He is of a blewilh colour , and is feen through the 

 skin, but the Negroes whofe skins are of that colour (or near it) are 

 in ill cafe, for they cannot find where they are ^ by which means they 

 are many of them very lame : fbme of thefe Chegoes are poyfonous, 

 and after they are taken out, the Orifice in which they lay, will fefter 

 and rankle fora fortnight after they are gone. I have had ten taken 

 out of my feet in a morning, by the moft unfortunate Tarko^ an Luiian 

 woman. 



Some kind of Animals more there are in the woods, which becaufc 

 I never faw, I cannot fpcak their forms ; fbme of them I gijefs are no 

 bigger than Crickets , they lye all day in holes and hollow trees , 

 and as fbonastheSun is down, they begin their tunes , which are 

 neither finging nor crying, but the (hriilcft voycesthat ever I heard; 

 nothing can be ib nearly rcfembl'd to it , as the mouths of a pack 

 of fmall beagles at a diftance 5 and fb lively, and chirping the noife is, 

 as nothing can be more delightful to the ears, if there were not too 

 much of it, for the mufick hath no intermiiiion till morning, and then 

 all is hufht. 



I had forgotten amongft my fifties to mention Crabs 5 but becaufe 

 this kind of them live upon the land,I might very wellovcrflip them, 

 and now bring them in, amongft thefe Animals : they are frnali Crabs, 

 fiichas women fell by dozens in baskets in the ftreets, and of that 

 colour raw and alive, as thefe are boyfd, which are of a reddifh colour. 



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