Oreen-Turtle. Hawks-bill Turtle. 
Green: but none of them are in any 
efteem , neither Spaniards nor Portuguefe 
loving them : Nay they have a great An- 
tipathy againft them, and would much ra- 
ther eat a Porpofe, tho’ our Englijb count 
the Green Turtle very extraordinary Food. 
The Reafon that is commonly given in the 
WeB-hdies for the Spaniards not caring to 
eat of them, is the fear they have left be- 
ing ufually foul-bodied, and many of them 
pox’d (lying, as they do, fo promifcuouf- 
ly with their Negrines and other She- 
flaves) they llaould break out loathfomely 
like Lepers ; which this fort of Food, ’tis 
faid, does much incline Men to do, fearch- 
ing the Body, and driving out any fuch 
grofs Humors : for which caufe many of 
our Englijh Valetudinarians have gone 
from Jamaica (tho’ there they have alfo 
Turtle) to the l.Caimanes, at the Laying- 
time , to live wholly upon Turtle that 
then abound there ; purpofely to have their 
Bodies fcour’d by this Food, and their Di- 
ftempers driven out : and have been faid 
to have found many of them good Succefs 
in it. But this by the way. The Hawkf- 
bill-Turtle on this Coaft of Brazil is mo ft 
fought after of any, for its Shell, which 
by Report of thofe I have convers’d with 
at Bahia , is the cleareft and beft-clouded 
Tortoife-fhfell in the World. 1 had fome 
of it fhewn me, which was indeed as good 
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