Mr. WAFERS ^Defcription 



Here are Rabbits, calPd by our EngliJB % Indian 

 Conies. They are as large as our Hares ; But I 

 know not that this Country has any Hares. Thefe 

 Rabbits have no Tails, and but little fhort Ears \ 

 and the Claws of their Feet are long. They lodge 

 in the Roots of Trees, making no Burrows ; and 

 the Indians hunt them, but there is no great Plenty 

 of them. They are very good Meat, and eat ra- 

 ther moifter than ours. 



There are great Droves of Monkeys, fome of 

 them white, but moil of them black ; fome have 

 Beards, others are beardlefs. They are of a middle 

 Size, yet extraordinary fat at the dry Seafon, when 

 the Fruits are ripe ; and they are very good Meat, 

 for we ate of them very plentifully. The Indians 

 were fhy of eating them for a while \ but they 

 foon were perfwaded to it, by feeing us feed on 

 them fo heartily. In the rainy Seafon they have 

 Worms in their Bowels. I have taken a Handful 

 of them out of one Monkey we cut open; and 

 fome of them 7 or 8 Foot long. They are a ve- 

 ry waggilh Kind of Monkey, and plaid a thou- 

 sand antick Tricks as we march'd at any Time 

 through the Woods, skipping from Bough to 

 Bough, with the young one's hanging at the old 

 one's Back, making Faces at us, chattering, and, if 

 they had Opportunity, piffing down purpofely on 

 our Heads. To pafs from Top td Top of high 

 Trees, whofe Branches are a little to far afunder for 

 their Leaping, they will fometimes hang down by 

 one another's Tails in a Chain and fwinging in that 

 Manner, the lowermoft catches hold of a Bough 

 of the other Tree, and draws up the reft of them. 



Here are no Bullocks, Horfes, Affes, Sheep, 

 Goats, or other fuch Beafts as we have for Food or 

 Service. They are exceedingly pefter'd with Mice 

 and Rats, which are moftly grey ; and a Brood of 

 cirTmiich Cats therefore to deftroy thefe, might; be as accep- 

 dleem'd. table 



