Cap. XIII. TfoCaribby-lflands. 



as foon as they are kill'd, which is very eafie, by reafon of 

 their attention in purfuit of their game, they immediately lofe 

 all their luftre 5 the gold and azure, and all the fparkling beau- 

 ty of their fkin vanishes, and they become pale and earthy. 



If any one of thefe Reptiles we have defcribed might be ac- 

 counted a kind otchatnelionjx. mould be this laft named,becaufe 

 it eafily a flumes the colours of thofe things on which it makes 

 its ordinary refidence, for thofe which are feen about young 

 Palm-trees are all green, as- the leaves of that Tree are .-"thofe 

 which frequent Orange-trees are yellow, as their fruit , nay 

 there have been fome, w.ho having much us'd a Chamber where 

 there was a Bed with Curtains of changeable Taffatajhad after- 

 wards an infinite number of young ones which had their bo- 

 dies enamell'd with feveral colours fuitably to the furniture of 

 the place to which they had fb often had accefs : fome haply 

 woukLhave this erTecl: attributed to the force of their little ima- 

 gination j but we leave that (peculation to the more addi&ed 

 to fuch curious difquifitions. 



LAND~r IKES. 



THere are alfo in feveral of thele Iflands certain creatures 

 which have the perfect figure, fkin, and head of the 

 Fiih we call a Pike, and therefore may be termed the Land- 

 Vikgs : but, inftead of Finns they have four feet, which arefb 

 "weak that they can onely crawl along the ground, and wind 

 their bodies as Snakes, or to keep to our former comparifon, 

 flir as Pikes, after they are taken out of the water. The 

 largeft are not above fifteen inches in length, and proportiona- 

 bly big : their fkin is cover'dwith little fcales which mine ex- 

 treamly, and are of a filver-grey colour : Some lovers of cu- 

 riofities have young ones in their Clofets, which they were 

 perfwaded to receive fox Salamanders. 



to the night time they make a hideous noife from under the 

 rocks,and the bottoms of hollow places where they are lodg'd : 

 It is more (harp and grating to the ear then that of Frogs and 

 Toads 5 and they change their notes according to the variety 

 of the places where they lurk : they are feldom feen but a lit- 

 tle before night, and 'when any of them are met in the day 

 time, their motion, which is fuch as we before defcribed it, is 

 apt to frighten the unwary beholder. 



SCORPIONS and other dangerous Reptiles. 



THere are alfo inthefe parts Scorpion^ like thofe common- 

 ly feen in France, and other places : but they have not 

 fb dangerous a venom : they are yellow, grey, or dark-oo- 

 ^onr'd according to the different foils in which they are bred. 



Some 



