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A33345	A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing C4558; ESTC R17743	124,649	128

are exceeding fat and tast excellently Tame Rabbets they have but they tast faintly more like Chickens then Rabbets They have also divers sorts of Birds but none that they use for Food Of their Fish Now for fish the Island want not plenty about it yet the Planters look so much after their profit on the Land that they will not spare time to catch it nor to send to the Bridge to buy that which is caught to their hands But when any have a mind to feast themselves with Fish they go to the Taverns at the Bridge where they have plenty and well drest Butter they seldom have that will beat thick but instead thereof they use Vineger Spice and fry much of their Fish in Oyl and eat it hot yet some they pickle and eat it cold Yet Collonel Humphrey Walrond having his Plantation near the Sea hath a Saine to catch Fish withall which his own servants and Slaves put to Sea twice or thrice a week and bring home store of small and great Fishes as Snappers red and gray Cavallos Macarel Mullets Cony-Fish and divers other sorts of firm and sweet Fish and some bigger then Salmons of the rarest colours that can be imagined being from the back fin which is the middle of the Fish to the end of the tail of a most pure grass green as shining as Satin The Fins and Tail dappled with a most rare hair-colour and from the back Fin to the Head a pure hair-colour dappled with green The Scales as big as an half Crown piece It is an exccent sweet Fish only there is one kind of Fish here wanting which are very rife in the adjacent Islands which is the green Turtle which the best meat that the Sea affords In other places they take an infinite number of them by turning them upon their backs with staves where they lie till they are fetcht away A large Turtle will have in her body half a bushel of Eggs. When they are to kill one of them they lay it on his back upon a table and when he sees them come with a knife to kill him he vapours out the most grievous sighs that ever you heard creature make and sheds as large tears as a Stag. He hath a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell into which they put the knife and rip up his belly which they call his Calipee and take out his bowels and heart which had three distinct points and this being laid in a dish will stir and pant ten hours after the Fish is dead It 's of a delicate taste and very nourishing Of The Quelquechoses The Quelquechoses with which they furnish out their Tables at a feast are Eggs potcht and laid upon Sippets soaked in Butter and juice of Limes and Sugar with plumpt Currans strewed upon them and Cloves Mace Cinamon strewed upon that with a little Salt Eggs boiled rosted and fried with Collops Buttered Eggs and Amulet of Eggs with the juice of Limes and Sugar a Fraize and a Tansie Custards and Cheese cakes Puffs Cream boiled to a heighth with yolks of Eggs and seasoned with Sugar and Spice Jelly which they make of a young Pig Caves-feet and a Cock Cream alone and some several wayes with the help of Limes Lemmons and Oranges and into some they put Plantanes Gnavers and Bonanoes stew'd or preserved with Sugar and the same fruit also preserved without Cream and to draw down a cup of Wine they have dried Neats Tongues Westfalia-Bacon Caviare Pickled-Herring Botargo all which are brought to them From Old and New England Virginia and Holland they have Beef and Pork As al Ling Haberdine Cod poor John Makarels and Herrings pickled and Sturgeon Pickled Turtles they have from the Lee-ward Islands Of these things they have had in these latter years such store that the Negroes are allowed for each man two Makarels a week and every woman one which are given them Saturday-nights after which they have their allowance of plantanes which is every one a large bunch or two two little ones to serve them for a weeks provision And if any Cattel die by chance or by any disease the Christian servants eat the bodies and the Negroes the Skins Head and Intrals which is divided to them by the Overseers If a Horse dies the Negroes have the whole bodies and this they think a high Feast with which poor souls were never better contented And the Drink which the servants have to this Diet is nothing but Mobby and sometimes a little Beveridge but the Negroes have nothing but water When the chief Planters make a Feast for their friends it s either made by such as live within Land or neer the Sea side For this Inland Plantation my Author instanceth in Sir James Draxe at whose Table he hath seen these several sorts of Meat well dressed And this Feast was alwayes made when he killed a Beef which he fed very fat by allowing it a dozen Acres of Bonavist to feed in First he mentions Beef as the greatest rarity in that Island of which he had these Dishes A Rump boiled a Chine rosted a large piece of the breast rosted a Cheek baked the Tongue and part of the Tripes in Minced-pies feasoned with sweet Herbs finely minced Suet Spice and Corrans The Leggs pallats and other ingredients for an Oleo Podigro and Maribones The Guests having eaten well hereof the Dishes were taken away and then came in a potato-pudding a Dish of Scotch Collips of a Legg of Pork Fricacy of the same a dish of boiled Chickens a shoulder of a young Goat a Kid with a Pudding in his belly a young Pigg exceeding fat and sweet a shoulder of Mutton which is there a rare Dish A Pastry made of the side of a young Goat and a side of a young Porket upon it well seasoned with pepper Salt and some Nutmegs A Loin of Veal to which they have plenty of Oringes Lemons and Limes three young Turkies in a Dish two Capons very large and fat two Hens with Eggs in a Dish four Ducklings eight Turtle Doves and three Rabbets And for cold Baked Meats two Muscovy Ducks larded and seasoned with pepper and salt And when these are taken from the Table another course is set on of Westphalia Bacon dried Neats Tongues Botargo pickled Oysters Caviare Anchoves Olives and mixt amongst these Custards Cream some alone some with preserved Plantanes Bonanoes Gnavers and these Fruits preserved by themselves Cheesecakes Puffs sometimes Tansies Fraises or Amulets And for raw fruit Plantaxes Bonanoes Gnavers Milions prickled Pears Anchove pears prickled Apples Custard Apples Water Milions and Pines better then all the rest And to this they had for Drink Mobby Beveridge Brandy Kill-Devil Drink of the Plantanes Claret White and Rhenish Wine Sherry Canary Red Sack Wine of Fiall besides several sorts of Spirits that come from England Now for a Plantation neer the Sea he instances in

in case they should at any time by foul Weather be driven to or cast upon on this Island that so they might there find fresh meat to serve them upon such an exigence And the Fruits and Roots that grew there afforeded them so great plenty of food that now they were multiplied abundantly In so much as the Indians of the Leeward Islands that were within sight coming thither in their Canoos and finding such Game to hunt as these Hoggs were whose flesh was so sweet and excellent in tast they came often thither a hunting staying sometimes a moneth together before they returned home leaving behind them certain tokens of their being there which were Pots of several sizes made of Clay so finely tempered and turned with such Art as the like to them for fineness of Mettle and curiosity of turning are not made in England in which they boiled their meat This discovery being made and advice thereof sent to their friends in England other ships were sent with Men Provisions and Working Tools to cut down the Woods and clear the Ground wherein to plant Provisions for their sustentation till then finding Food but straglingly in the Woods But when they had cleared some quantity of Land they Planted Potato's Plantines and Maies or Indian Wheat with some other Fruits which together with the Hoggs which they found there served only to keep life and soul together And their supplies from England coming so slow and so uncertainly they were oft driven to great extremities And the Tobacco that grew there was so earthy and worthless as that it gave them little or no return from England or other places so that for a while they lingered in a doubtful condition For the Woods were so thick and most of the Trees so large and massy as that they were not to be faln by so few hands And when they were laid along the Boughs were so thick and and unweldy as required more help of strong and active men to lop and remove them off the ground which continued so for many years in somuch as they Planted Potato's Maies and Bonavists between the Boughs as the Trees lay on the ground Yet not long after they planted Indigo and ordered it so well as that it sold in London at very good Rates And their Cotten Woll and Fustick Wood proved very good and staple Commodities So that having these four sorts of commodities to traffique with all Some Ships were invited in hope of gain by that Trade to come and visit them bringing for exchange such Commodities as they wanted to wit Working-Tools Iron Steel Clothes Shirts Drawers Hose and Shooes Hats and more Hands So that beginning to find good by this Trade they set themselves hard to work and lived in much better condition But when their Sugar-Canes had been planted three or four years they found that to be the principal Plant whereby to raise the value of the whole Island and therefore bent all their endeavours to improve their knowledge and skill in Planting them and making Sugar Which knowledg though they studied hard was long in Learning This Island which we call Barbado's lies in thirteen Degrees and about thirty Minutes of Northern Latitude The usual Bay into which Ships put is Carlile Bay which without exception is the best in the Island and is somewhat more than a League over and from the Points of the Land to the bottom of the Bay is twice as much Upon the innermost part of this Bay stands a Town called the Bridge for that a long Bridge was at first made over a little Nook of the Sea which yet indeed is rather a Bogg than a Sea This Town is ill scituated the Planters looking more after conveniencie than health But one house being erected another was set up by it for Neighbourhood and than a third and a fourth till at last it became a Town Divers storehouses were also built there wherein to stow their goods being so neer and convenient for the Harbour But their great oversight was to build a Town in so unhealthfull a place For the ground being somewhat lower within the Land than the Sea banks are the Spring-Tides flow over and so remain there making much of that flat a kind of Bog or Marish which sends out so loathsome a Savour as cannot but breed ill blood and probably is the occasion of much sickness to those that live there The ground on either side this Bay but chiefly that to the Eastward is much firmer and lies higher and therefore with some charge may be made as convenient as the Bridge and much more healthfnl Three more Bayes there be of note in this Island One to the Eastward of this which they call Austins Bay The other are to the West of Carlile-Bay The first whereof is called Mackfields Bay the other Spikes Bay but neither of these three are environed with Land as Carlile Bay is but being to the Leeward of the Island and of good Anchorage they seldome are in danger unless in the time of the Turnado when the Winds turn about to the South And then if they be not well moved the Ships are subject to fall foul one upon another and sometimes are driven a ground For the Leeward part of the Island being rather shelvy than Rocky they are seldom or never cast away The leng the hot Island is twenty eight miles and the breadth in some places seventeen miles in others twelve so that they make about three hundred nitety two square miles in the whole Island It rises highest in the middle so that when you come within sight of this happy Island the nearer you come the more beautiful it appears to the Eye For being in it self exceeding beautiful it 's best discerned and best judged of when your eyes become full Mistris of the Object There you may see the high large and lofty Trees with their spreading branches and flourishing tops which seem to be beholding to the Earth and Roots that gave them such plenty of sap for their Nourishment which makes them grow to that perfection of beauty and largeness Whil'st they by way of gratitude return their cool shade to secure and shelter the Earth from the Suns heat which otherwise would scorch and dry it up So that Bounty and Goodness in the one and Gratefulness in the other serve to make up this Beauty which alwayes would lie empty and waste By the Commodity of the Scituation of this Island which is highest in the midst the Inhabitants within have these advantages First a free prospect into the Sea then a reception of a opure and refreshing air and Breezes that come from thence The Plantations overlooking one another so as the more in most parts are not debarred nor restrained of their liberties of the view to the Sea by those that dwell between them and it Whil'st the Sun is in the Aequinoctial or within ten degrees of

his hand if it stir not it produceth no effect but if it move it self never so little it so torments the body of him that holds it that his arteries joints sinews all his members feel exceeding great pain with a certain numness and as soon as he layeth it out of his hand all that pain and numness is gone also P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1183. See more of it afterwards 9. In Sofala are many River-horses as big as two of our horses with thick and short hinder legs having five clawes on each fore-foot and four on the hinder the mouth is wide and full of teeth four of which are above two spans long a peece the two lower stand upright the two upper are turned like a Boars tush they live in the water but feed on the land upon grass they have teats wherewith they nourish their young ones Their Hides are thicker than an Oxes they are all of an ash-colour Gray with white strakes on their faces or white Stars in their foreheads Idem p. 1544. 10. In the mouth of the River of Goa there was taken a fish of the bigness of a Cur-Dog with a snout like an Hog small eyes no ears but two holes in-stead thereof It had four feet like an Elephant the tail was flat but at the end round and somewhat sharp It snorted like a Hog the Body Head Tail and Legs were covered with broad Scals as hard as Iron so that no weapon could peirce them when he was beaten he would rowle himself round like an Urchin and could by no strength be opened till he opened of his own accord Idem p. 1774. 11. There are also Toad-Fishes of about a span long painted having fair Eyes when they are taken out of the water they snort and swell much their poison lies only in the skin and that being flaid off the Indians eat them Idem p. 1314. 12. The Cuttle-Fish hath a hood alwayes full of black water like Ink which when she is pursued by other fishes that would devour her she casts it forth which so darkens and foileth the water that she thereby escapeth Idem 13. There are a sort of fishes whose wonderful making magnifieth their Creator who for their safety hath given them fins which serve in-stead of wings they are of such a delicate skin interlaced with fine bones as may cause admiration in the beholder These fishes are like to Pilcherds only a little rounder and bigger they flye best with a side wind but longer than their wings are wet they cannot flye so that their longest flight is about a quarter of a mile The Dolphins and Bonitos do continually hunt after them to prey upon them whereupon for safety they take the air but then there is a Fowle called an Alcatrace much like a Hern which hovers in the air to seize upon them Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Caribdim Out of the frying Pan into the fire as our Proverb hath it 14. There is often a strang fight in the Sea between the Whale and his enemies viz. The Swordfish and the Thresher The Swordfish is not great but strongly made and between his neck and shoulders he hath a bone like a Sword of about five inches broad and above three foot long full of prickles on either side The Thresher is a bigger fish whose tail is broad and thick and very weighty The fight is in this manner the Swordfish placeth himself under the belly of the Whale and the Thresher above with his tail thresheth upon the head of the Whale till he forceth him to give way which the Swordfish perceiving wounds him in the belly with the Sword and so forceth him to rise up again In this manner they torment him that the fight is sometimes heard above three leagues off the Whales roaring being heard much further his onely remedy in this case is to get to the shore which he laboureth to do as soon as he sees his enemies for then there can fight but one with him and for either of them hand to hand he is too good Pur. Pil. v. 4. p. 1377. 15. Mr. Herbert in his East-Indy voyage relates of a Shark taken by one of their men that was nine foot and an half in length and they found in her paunch fifty and five young ones each of them a foot in length all which go out and in at their pleasures She is armed with a double row of venemous teeth and is guided to her prey by a little Musculus or Pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence the Shark for his kindnesse suffering it to suck when it pleaseth 16. The Sea Tortoise is not much differing from those at land only her shell is flatter by overturning them they are easily taken being hereby dis-enabled either to sink or help themselves they taste waterish and cause Fluxes they superabound in eggs one of them having in her neer two thousand which eggs are pale and round and will never be made hard with boiling Herberts Travels p. 26. 17. In the Indian Sea is an Eagle-fish whose eyes are five quarters asunder from the end of one fin to the end of the other are above four yards Its mouth and teeth resemble a Portcullis it hath a long small tail and it is rather to be wondered at then to be eaten 18. In Le-Maires voyage about the world a certain fish or Sea monster with an horn struck against the ship with such violence that shook it whereupon the Master looking overboard saw the Sea all bloody but knew not what should be the cause till coming into Port-Desire where they cleansed and trimmed their ship they found seven foot under water a Horn sticking in the ship for bignesse and fashion like an Elephants tooth yet not hollow but all solid of hard bone which had pierced through three double planks and was entred into a rib of the ship it stuck about half a foot deep in the ship and by great force was broken off which caused that great monster to bleed so much as discoloured the water Pur. Pil. v. 1. p. 90. 19. The Mannaty is a strange fish resembling a Cow Her face is like a Buffalo's her eyes small and round having hard gums instead of teeth they feed much on the shore which makes them taste like flesh of veal their intrails differ little from a Cows their bodies are commonly three yards long and one broad they swim slowly wanting fins in the place whereof they have two things like paps which are their stilts when they creep on the shore to graze where they sleep long sucking in the cool aire they cannot keep under water above half an hour The stone generated in their head is most esteemed being soveraign against choller adust the stone collick and dissenteryes if beaten small infused in wine and drunk fasting Herb. Trav. p. 26. See more afterwards 20. The Carvel comes of the foam of the sea every where floating upon the surface of the

Harbours are New-Plimouth Cape Anu Salem and Marvil-Head all which afford good ground for Anchorage being Land-lockt from Wind and Seas The chief and usual Harbour is the still Bay of Massechusets which is also aboard the Plantations it s a safe and pleasant Harbour within having but one secure entrance and that no broader than for three Ships to enter abreast but within there is Anchorage for five hundred Ships This Harbour is made by many Islands whose high Clifts shoulder out the boisterous Seas yet may easily deceive the unskilful Pilot presenting many fair openings and broad sownds whose Waters are too shallow for ships though Navigable for Boats and small Pinnases The entrance into the great Haven is called Nant●scot which is two Leagues from Boston From hence they may sail to the River of Wessaguscus Naponset Charles River and Mistick River on all which are seated many towns Here also they may have fresh supplies of Wood and water from the adjacent Islands with good Timber to repair their Weather-beaten Ships As also Masts or Yards there being store of such Trees as are useful for the purpose The places which are inhabited by the English are the best ground and sweetest Climate in all those parts bearing the name of New England the Air agreeing well with our English bodies being High Land and a sharp Air and though they border upon the Sea-Coast yet are they seldom obscured with Mists or unwholesome Foggs or cold Weather from the Sea which lies East and South from the Land And in the extremity of Winter the North-East and South-winds comming from the Sea produce warm weather and bringing in the Seas loosen the frozen Bayes carrying away the Ice with their Tides Melting the Snow and thawing the ground Only the North-west Winds coming over the Land cause extream cold weather accompanied with deep Snows and bitter Frosts so that in two or three dayes the Rivers will bear Man or Horse But these Winds seldom blow above three dayes together after which the Weather is more tollerable And though the cold be sometimes great yet is there good store of wood for housing and fires which makes the Winter less tedious And this very cold Weather lasts but eight or ten weeks beginning with December and ending about the tenth of February Neither doth the piercing colds of Winter produce so many ill effects as the raw Winters here with us in England But these hard Winters are commonly the forerunners of a pleasant Spring and fertile Summer being judged also to make much for the health of our English bodies The Summers are hotter than here with us because of their more Southerly Latitude yet are they tollerable being oft cooled with fresh Winds The Summers are commonly hot and dry there being seldom any Rain yet are the Harvests good the Indian Corn requiring more heat than wet to ripen it And for the English corn the nightly Dews refresh it till it grows up to shade its Roots with its own substance from the parching Sun The times of most Rain are in April and about Michaelmas The early Spring and long Summers make the Autumns and Winters to be but short In the Springs when the Grass begins to put forth it grows apace so that whereas it was black by reason of Winters blasts in a fortnights space there will be grass a foot high New England being nearer the Aequinoctial than Old England the days and nights be more equally divided In Summer the dayes be two hours shorter and in Winter two hours longer than with us Virginia having no Winter to speak of but extream hot Summers hath dried up much English blood and by the pestiferous Diseases hath swept away many lusty persons changing their complexions not into swarthiness but into Paleness which comes not from any want of food the Soil being fertile and pleasant and they having plenty of Corn and Cattel but rather from the Climate which indeed is found to be too Hot for our English Constitutions which New England is not In New England Men and Women keep their natural Complexions in so much as Seamen wonder when they arive in those parts to see their Countrey men look so Fresh and Ruddy neither are they much troubled with Inflammations or such Diseases as are increased by too much heat The two chief Messengers of Death are Feavours and Callentures but they are easily cured if taken in time and as easily prevented if men take care of their bodies As for our common Diseases they be Strangers in New England Few ever have the small Pox Measels Green-sickness Headach Stone Consumption c. yea many that have carried Coughs and Consumptions thither have been perfectly cured of them There are as sweet lusty Children born there as in any other Nation and more double births than with us here The Women likewise recover more speedily and gather strength after child-birth sooner than in Old England The Soil for the general is a warm kind of Earth there being little cold spewing Land no Moorish Fens nor Quagmires The lowest Grounds be the Marshes which are ovrflown by the Spring-Tides They are Rich Ground and yield plenty of Hay which feeds their Cattel as well as the best Upland Hay with us And yet they have plenty of Upland Hay also which grows commonly between the Marshes and the Woods And in many places where the Trees grow thin they get good Hay also And near the Plantations there are many Meddows never overflowed and free from all Wood where they have as much Grass as can be turned over with a Sithe and as high as a mans middle and some higher so that a good Workman will Mow three Loads in a day Indeed this Grass is courser than with us yet is it not sower but the Cattel eat and thrive very well with it and are generally larger and give more Milk than with us and bring forth young as well and are freer from diseases than the Cattel here There is so much Hay Ground in the Country that none need fear want though their Cattel should encrease to thousands there being some thousands of Acres that were yet never medled with and the more their Grass is Mowed the thicker it grows and where Cattel use to graze in the Woods the Ground is much improved growing more grassy and less full of Weeds and there is such plenty of Grass in the Woods that the Beasts need not Fodder till December at which time men begin to house their milch beasts and Calves In the Upland Grounds the Soil varies in some places Clay in others Gravel and some are of a Red Sand all which are covered with a black Mould usually a foot or little less deep The English Manure their ground with Fish whereof they have such plenty that they know not how otherwise to dispose of them yet the Indians being too lazy to catch Fish plant Corn eight or ten years in one place without any such help where they have yet a

Ocean of a round form throwing abroad her strings like so many lines which she can spread at pleasure therewith angling for small fishes which she catches at leasure you may call her a Sea-Spider for when she sees her web too weak she can blow an infectious breath foaming death or such a sting as if she had borrowed it from a Scorpion Idem 21. In the East-Indies is a trade wind which they call a Briese or Monson which blows West all April May June July August and part of September and East the rest of the year Only on the East of Sumatra it blows five months East and five months West and the other two variable This is well known to our East-Indy Merchants 22. The Torpedo is a Fish like a Bream but somwhat thicker some Marriners having one of them in a net went to take it forth but one of them presently cryed out that he had lost the use of his hands and armes another that was bare-legged putting his foot to it lost the sence of his leg but after a while their feeling returned again whereupon calling their Cook they bade him to take and dresse it who laying both his hands thereon made grievous moan that he felt not his hands but when its dead it produceth no such effect but is good meat Pur. Pil. p. 1568. 23. About Jamica in the West-Indies is a Fish called a Manati which is of a strange shape and nature It brings forth her young ones alive and nourisheth them with Milk from her teats feeding upon grass in the fields but lives for the most part in the water the hinder-parts of it are like unto a Cow and it eats like veal Idem v. 3. p. 930. 24. In Brasile are Oxe-fishes which are very good meat For head hair skin cheeks and tongue they are like Oxen their eyes small with lids to open and shut which no other fish hath It breatheth and therefore cannot be long under water Instead of fore-feet it hath two arms of a cubit long with two round hands and on them five fingers close together with nails like a mans under these arms the female hath paps wherewith she nourisheth her young she brings forth but one at once It hath no fins but the tail which is also round and close their bones are all maffie and white like Ivory of this Fish they make great store of sweet Oil they feed most upon the land Idem v. 4. p. 1313. 25. In Sir Fran. Drakes voyage about the world when they came to the Island of Celebes which is wholly overgrown with wood amongst the Trees night by night they saw infinite swarms of fiery worms flying in the air their bodies no bigger than of our English Flyes which made such a shew and gave such a light as if every twig or tree had been a burning candle In which place also were great store of Bats as big as large Hens Pur. Pil. v. 1. p. 56. 26. In Captain Saris his voyage to Bantam about mid-night they fell into the strangest and fearfullest water that ever any of them had seen the water giving such a glaring light about the ship that they they could discern letters in a book thereby whereas a little before it was so dark that they could discern nothing This made them fear that it had been the breach of sunken ground But finding that they had failed half an hour in it and saw no alteration they perceived at length that it was a multitude of Cuttle-fish that made this fearful shew Pur. Pil. p. 352. CHAP. V. The wonderful works of God in the Creatures Of strange Fowls and Birds 1. IN one of the Scottish Islands there is a rare kind of Fowl unknown to other Countrys called Colca little lesse than a Goose They come thither every year in the spring hatch and nourish their young ones About which time they cast all their feathers and become stark naked all their bodies over and then they get themselves to the Sea and are no more seen till the next spring Their feathers have no quill as other feathers have but are all like unto Down wherein is no hardnesse Descr. of Scot. 2. In the North Seas of Scotland are great loggs of Timber found in which are ingendred after a marvellous manner a sort of Geese called Claik-geese and they do hang by the beak till they are grown to perfection and then they receive life and fall off they are many times found kept in admiration for their rare manner of Generation They are very fat and delicious to be eaten Idem Some question the truth hereof 3. Storks are so careful of their parents that when they grow old and so are unable to help themselves the young ones feed them and when in passing the Sea their wings fail them the young ones will take them on their backs and carry them over And this is remarkable about them 4. The Town of Delph in the Low-Countries is so seated for the breeding and feeding of those Birds that it is hard to see an house wherein they do not build In this Town upon the third of May Anno Christi 1536. a great fire happened when the young Storks were grown pretty big the old ones perceiving the fire to approach to their Nests attempted to carry away their young ones but could not they were so weighty which they perceiving never ceased with their spread wings to cover them till they all perished in the flames together Belg. Common Wealth p. 63. 5. In America there are certain small Birds called Viemalim with small and long bills that live upon the dew and of the juice of Flowers and roses like Bees their feathers are of very curious colours they dye or sleep every year in October sitting upon the bough of a Tree in a warm place and in Aprill following when the Flowers are sprung they awake again I have one of them 6. In the Arabian Deserts there are great store of Ostriches that go in flocks and often affright passengers that are strangers with their fearful schr●eches appearing a farr off like a Troop of horsmen Their bodies are too heavy to be born up by their wings which though uselesse for flight yet serve them to run with greater speed so that a swift Horse can scarce overtake them whatsoever they finde be it stones or iron they greedily swallow it down and concoct it when they have laid their eggs which are as big as a Culverin Bullet they forget where they left them and so return no more to them but they are hatched by the heat of the Sun in the warm sands hence those expressions Lam. 4. 3. The Daughter of my people is become cruel like the Ostriches in the wildernesse whereupon she is made the Embleme of folly Job 39. 14. c. She leaveth her eggs in the earth and warmeth them in the dust and forgets that the foot may crush them c. 7. In Brasile there is a little bird