his Malefactors. Their Disease. The Sport they make. Ants
of divers sorts. How one sort of them, called Coddias,
came to sting so terribly. These Ants very mischievous. The
curious Buildings of the Vaeos, another kind of them. The
manner of their death. Bees of several kinds. Some build on
Trees like Birds. The people eat the Bees, as well as their
Honey. Leaches, that ly in the grass, and creep on Travaylers
Legs. The Remedies they use against them. Apes and Monkeys
of divers kinds. How they catch Wild Beasts. How they take
the Wild Boar.


CHAP. VII.

Of their Birds, Fish, Serpents, and Commodities.

Their Birds. Such as will be taught to speak. Such as are
beautiful for Colour. A strange Bird. Water-Fowls resembling
Ducks and Swans. Peacocks. The King keeps Fowl. Their Fish,
How they catch them in Ponds, And how in Rivers. Fish kept
and fed for the King's Pleasure. Serpents. The Pimberah of a
prodigious bigness. The Polonga. The Noya. The Fable of the
Noya ana Polonga. The Carowala. Gerendo. Hickanella. Democulo,
a great Spider. Kobbera-guson, a Creature like an
Aligator. Tolla-guion. The people eat Rats. Precoius Stones,
Minerals, and other Commodities. The People discouraged from
Industry by the Tyranny they are under.


PART II.