Cap. XXII The Caribb^ Wands. 



CHAP. XXII 



Com amino the particular Defer iptions of feveral forts 

 of Crabs or Crab-fjb , commonly found in the 

 CaribbLs. 



THere 3 re found in all thtCarrbbji-I/lands certain Crabs or 

 Crab-fifh, which are a kind of amphibious Crevices-^ 

 and very good nie?t 5 whereas thofe of Brafl are unplea- 

 fant, inafinuchas the) fmellof the Juniper-root. According- 

 ly the Indian Inhabitant : very highly efteem theirs, and make 

 them their ordinary entertainment:: They are all of an oval 

 figure; having the tail turning in under the belly : Their bo- 

 dies, which are a Ver d all over with a Ihell hard enough,is fup- 

 ported by federal tV t which are all fall of little prickles, which 

 facilitate their climbing up to thofe places whither they would 

 get up: The two fore-feet are very big, and of thofe one is 

 fomewhat bigger then the other : The French call thefe two 

 fore-feet or claws, Mordants, fignificantly enough, forafmuch 

 as with thefe they twitch and fecure whatfoever they have 

 fattened on .* The fore-part wMch is fomewhat broader, and 

 ftands up higher then the other, hath ftanding a little out two 

 eyes, which art folid, tranfparent, and of feveral colours : Their 

 mouths are armed with two little white teeth difpos'd on each 

 fide like a pair of {harp pincers, wherewith they cut the leaves 

 of Fruits, and the roots of Trees on which they feed. 



TOVRLOVROV. 



THere are three kinds of them, differing inbignels and co- 

 lour, of which the leaft are thofe commonly called 

 Tourlourou f : They have a red (hell marked with black-fpots 5 

 they are plcafanf enough to the tafte, but in regard there is 

 much picking work about them, and but little to be gotten 

 from them, and that it is conceived they incline people to the 

 bloody flux, they are ufed only in cafe of neceffity. 



WHITE-CRABS. 



THere are others all white, and have their abodes at the 

 foot of Trees on the Sea-fide, in certain holes which 

 they make in the ground, into which they retreat, as the Co- 

 nies do into their Clappers or Hutches : Thefe are the biggeft 

 of all the kinds, nay there have been thofe taken which have 

 had in one of their claws as much meat as an egge might con- 



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