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with itt the Mountaines, and woods; and go in herds- to- 
gether. They feed on roots, acorns, and fruits 5 but as 
the greateft delicacy they hunt for all manner of poyfo- 
nous Serpents, and Toads 5 and having caught them, 
holding them with their fore feet^ with a great deal of 
dexterity, with their teeth they ftripof their skin from 
the head to the Tayle, then greedily devour them. To- 
Jiea ("faith ' Jo Faber^ who had the account from Grego- 
rius^ who often has feen them, and lived in thofe parts 
24 years) 'B^dicem feu certie arboris Corticem fihi notum 
quizriti quern comedit^ ne veneno inficiatur ; (3 hac ratione op- 
time nutritur^ crefcit^ & augefctt. When they are made 
tame, they will feed on any thing. But naturally they 
are very fierce. 
C^t/^Wiifj- remarkes that the i'Ww^, Spaniards left on 
the Illands of St. Domingo^ St. "^oannes^ and Jamaica^ mul- 
tiplyed, and encreafed. But thofe in T^rr^ Firma 
never go in the woods but were deftroyed by the Lions, 
Tigers, and Lupz Cervarii, Yet in thefe woods, there are 
great herds of thefe Tajacus, that can make their party 
good with the Feirceft of them. It any be wounded, 
prefently he gets to his affiftance a great number of his 
kind; and never leaves till he has revenged the injury, 
or IS flain. They are all way es at enmity with the Tigers^ 
And there is often found the body of aTy^^r, and abun- 
dance ot thefe 7"^y<!J^^j^ flain together. It they fpyamaii 
they will fiercely (et on him, and his beft efcape is to get 
up atree, which they will moft furioufly affault with their 
teeth, nor will eafily leave him 3 till forced by hunger, or 
llain by him, by Clubs, Darts, or a Gun, ^Jofephus a Cojia 
tells us, tis ufual this way to take them i by amansfliew- 
ing himfelf to them, whome they know they will prefent- 
ly perfue. If they hunt them, their dogs are often torne 
in pieces by them. Their Flejh is efteemed very good, 
and much defired by the Inhabitants, G. Fifo faith, it ex- 
i HiRor. Animal 8<g. Me.\ican. p. 5 ,8, !^ Jof. a Cofta lib 4. Hill. Arneric. 
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