Cap. XIH. The Caribby-Iflands. 



enters, they prefently dye : The Caribbians are very dextrous 

 in the taking of them by a Gin with a running knot, which 

 they cunningly get about their necks .* or having overtaken 

 them by running, they lay hold on them with one hand by the 

 tail, which being very long gives them a good hold, and be- 

 fore they can turn back to bite them, they take them by the 

 chine-piece of the neck, and then having turn'd their paws on 

 their backs, they bind them, and fo keep them alive above fif- 

 teen days without giving them any fuftenance : Their flew is 

 white, and in fome places over-laid with fat .* Thofe who are 

 accuftomed to it think it very delicate, efpecially the lulbous 

 tafte it naturally is of being taken away by good Spices, and 

 fome picquant fauce yet is it not fafe to eat often thereof, 

 becaufe it over-dries the body, and abates fome what of the 

 good constitution thereof.* the egges have no white, but are 

 all yolk, which makes the Pottage they are ufed in as excellent 

 as our Hens-egges might do. 



Beiides thete greater forts of Lizzards, there are in thefe 

 Iflands four others, which are much left*, and thefe Are 

 called, Anolis^ Roquets 3 MaboufatS) and Cobe-mouchcs^ or t Ij- 



ANOLIS. 



THcAmUf are very common in all the Plantations : they 

 are a bout the bignefs and length of the Lizzards feen in 

 France but they have a longer head, the fkin yellowifti, and 

 on their backs they have certain blew, green and grey it reaks 

 drawn from the top of the head to the end of the tail : their 

 abode is in holes under ground, whence in the night time they 

 make a very loud and importunate noife : In the day time they 

 are in perpetual exercile, and they only wander about Cottages 

 to get fome what to fubfift on. 



ROQVETS. 



THe Roquets are le(s then the Anolis : their fkin is of the 

 colour of a withered leaf, marked with little yellow or 

 blackifh points: they goon four feet, whereof the fore-feet 

 are high enough : their eyes are very lively and iparkling: 

 their heads are always lifted up, and they are fo active that 

 they perpetually leap up and down, like Birds when they would 

 not makeufe of their wings : their tails are fo turn'd up towards 

 their backs thatthey make a circle and a half: They love to 

 lee men, and if they ftay where they are they will ev« r and 

 anon be '(taring on them: when they are a little purfifd, they 

 open their mouths , and put out their tongues like Utile 

 Hounds. 



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