8z The Hiftory of Book I. 



" a Fly, fince JD« £<irf^ fometime gave it a place among the 

 cc Birds, and in the fifth Day of hi s fir ft Week fpeaks very nobly 

 cc of it in thefe terms : 



New-Spain's Cucuyo in his forehead brings 

 Two burning Lamps, two underneath his wings } 

 Whofe pining rays ferve oft in darfeft night, 

 Th' Embroiderer s hand in royal works to light ; 

 Th' ingenious turner with a wakgful eye 

 To polifh fair his purefi Ivory .* 

 Th' Vfirer to count hisglifi'ring Treafures : 

 The learned Scribe to limne his golden meafires. 



" If five or fix of thefe Flies were put into a veffel of fineCry- 

 ec ftal, no doubt, the light of them would be anfwerable to the 

 cc Poets defcription, and be a living and incomparable Tortch. 

 cc But it is to be noted, that thefe Flies fhine not at all when 

 "once they are dead, their light being extinguifh'd with their 

 ee lives. 



PHALANGES. 



TO come to the other kinds of great Flies to be feen in 

 thefe Iflands, and which fome call Phalanges, befidesthe 

 Cucuyos there! are fome that be much bigger, and of a ftrange 

 figure: There are fome have twofnouts like that of an Ele- 

 phant, one turning upwards, the other downwards: Some 

 others have three horns, one rifing out of the back, and the 

 other two out of the head : The reft of their body, as alfo 

 their horns, is black, and mines like Jet. There are fome have 

 one great horn about four inches in length, much after the fa- 

 fhion of a Wood-cocks bill, very fmooth on the upper fide, 

 and covered with a certain downinefs on the lower, which 

 horn rifing out of their back reaches in a direft line to the 

 head, on which there is another horn, like that of the horned 

 Beetle, which is as black as Ebony, and tranfparent as glafs : 

 The whole body is of the colour of a wither cl leaf, fmooth, 

 and flourifhed like Damafk : their head and mouth are like 

 thofe of an Ape j they have two large, yellow, and firm eyes, 

 a wide mouth and teeth like a 'little Saw. Hear what account 

 our curious Traveller gives of it. 



cc I have feen, faith he, one kind of thefe great Flies, which 

 " I thought extreamly beautiful : It was about three inches in 

 "length: the head of it was azure, not unlike that of a Grafs - 

 cc hopper, fave that the two eyes were as green as an Emerald, 

 cc and encompafs'd byafmall white ftreak: the upper fide of 

 C{ the wings was of a bright violet colour, damafk'd with fe- 

 " veral compartiments of carnation, heightned by a fmall na- 

 tural 



