(146) 
Pifo (F) having concluded his Defcription of the Ca- 
rigueyat adds, In Indiis Orient altlm^ idq; folum quantum 
ha^lenm conft at in Amboim^ fimilis Bejlia frequens ad F^-^ 
lis magnitudinem accedens^ matlata ah incolis comeditur^ 
ft rite preparetur^ nam alias ftetet, Nomen illi Cous 
Cous inditum. What Similitude this Beaft may have 
with our Animal; or whether it is to be reckoned 
amongft the Animalia Crumenata , as Scaliger (r) calls 
them, 1 do not know. Our Animal feems to be pro- 
perly a Native o{ America, Richardus Dinothus (as I 
find him quoted in Aldrovandiu (a) faith Feram horum 
Tatriam Americam ejfe, prafertim Pervanis Regioniiui. 
So Peter Martyr (u?), Ar bores in Pariana Regione ingen- 
tes funt\ inter quas repertum eft animal^ &c. and then 
defcribes our Pojfum. That 'tis found in Darien and 
Florida^ is aflerted by Nieremlergius (d) ; and in New- 
Sfain^ by Cardan^ and others. That they are in the 
Ifles of Anguilla and TalagOy is affirmed by the Author of 
the Prgfent State of his Majcfty's Ifles and Territories in 
America^ pag. 13 3, and pag, 25*0. And in Firginid 
they are f requently to be met with ; as Ralph Hamor (/}, 
John de Laet (m\ Captain jf^?^» Smith («), and a great 
many others, tells us ; and this that we difleded came 
from thence. 
But not only in ih^Wefly but South America likewife, 
'tis to be found: So Petrus Maffeius (e^ and Cafpar 
Barlaew (/) afTures us, that they are in Brafile, Whe. 
ther Cardan (i) was not mis-informed, when he tells us, 
that 'tis in Ethiopia ; I do very much queftion ; his 
Words are thefe: Animal aliud mitt it /Ethiopia^ parte 
anteriori vulpi per [mile y Cauda^^ pofteriore Cercopithe* 
cOy pedilus anteriorihus humaniSy aurilm vefpertilioniSf 
quod crumenam halet fub Venire^ qua Catulos undiquaq; 
gerii: nec dimittit^ nifidum laSare vult. What Authori- 
ty he had for this, I do not know but he owns too, 
that 
