fly wild, they are chased by the foxes like fowls. Tortoises are

very small,* and are not eaten, because there is plenty iifvirginT of other food. The most wonderful are t!ie bull-frogs,

in size about a span, which croak with a ringing noise in the evening, as in tliis country. 'Tis surprising that storks have not been found there, if it be a marshy country. Spoonbills, ravens, eagles, sparrow-hawks, vultures are numerous and are actually shot or knocked down by the natives.

'Tis worthy of remark that so great a diversity of language

exists among tlie numerous Tribes. They vary fre- ^giiage"."" qucntly not over five or six miles ; forthwith comes

anot'ier language ; tlioy meet and can hardly understand one another. There are some who come sixty miles from the interior, and can not Avell understand tliose on the River. All are very cunning in Trade; yea, frequently, after having sold every thing, they will go back of the bargain, and that forcibly, in order to get a little more; and then they return upwards, being thirty and forty strong ; their outer clothing being all skins and furs.

It appears by the statements of the Higlilanders, there are

larger animals in tlie interior. On seeing t]\e head of 'maKhwhe Tnurus^ oue of the signs ^ of the Zodiac, the w^omen uppci luui.iij.,^^^^^^^, y^^^_^^ ,.^ explain tliat it is a horned liead of a big,

wild animal wh.ich inhabits the distant country, but not their'sj and whiCn it rises in a certain part of t;ie heavens, at a time knov.-n to them, tlien is the season for planting ; then they begin to break up t'le soil vvith axes [lylen) and to throw in the seed; like tiie Boors in Italy who appear by Virgil m Bucolicis to take their proper time from tlie signs.