Here are also Water-hogs, of a very delicious taste; but because they are very apprehensive, and dive at the least noise, they are seldom taken.
The Woods are full of Baboons and Apes, as also the slothful Beast Ai.
The Hares here, being of a brown Colour, with white Specks, and the red Rabbets, are accounted great Delicacies.
There is no Countrey in America, which breeds greater Armadillo’s than Guiana, some of them weighing eighty Pound.
Here are also Bears, which live on nothing but Pismires; they have long hairy Tails, with which they cover their Bodies in rainy Weather; they put their Tongues a Foot deep into the Pismires Nests, and so pulls them out.
The Tygers here are either black, spotted, or red; but the black exceed the other in cruelty, yet are seldom seen near inhabited places; the spotted and red devour abundance of Cattel, but will seldom set upon a Man, especially in the day-time.
The Woods are also full of Land-Turtles, which the Inhabitants take, and keep till they have occasion to make use of their Flesh.
The Eagles that are here with their Claws, Engage with those that go about to take them.
The Catamountains make such an exceeding noise at a certain hour, both in the Night and in the Day, that it is heard two Leagues off.
The Marmozets, a little Beast, biting the Catamountains and Apes in the Ears, forces them to leap from one Tree to another.