. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. And the Prelates saythey doe all this because they have no other, whom togive the Parishes unto, which are many. [Chap. III. 517 1557-8. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES *Lerius withother Protes-tants went atVil. his requestto M. Calvin,to Brasill, hethere fortify-ing andpretendingEvangelicallreformation,from which heafter aposta-tised. TheStory is long,which I hadby mee whollytranslated;but store hathbred a sore;and the mostof it I haveomitted; asalso allTk
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. And the Prelates saythey doe all this because they have no other, whom togive the Parishes unto, which are many. [Chap. III. 517 1557-8. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES *Lerius withother Protes-tants went atVil. his requestto M. Calvin,to Brasill, hethere fortify-ing andpretendingEvangelicallreformation,from which heafter aposta-tised. TheStory is long,which I hadby mee whollytranslated;but store hathbred a sore;and the mostof it I haveomitted; asalso allTkevetsVoyagethither, andthat ofStadius inthose parts,though al Chap. III. Extracts out of the Historie of John Lerius * aFrenchman, who lived in Brasill with , Ann. 1557. and 58. §. 1. Of the Beasts, and other living creatures, andPlants, of Brasill. Efore I proceed any further, presently inthe beginning of this Chapter, I thoughtgood briefly to admonish the Reader,that no living creatures of the kinde offoure-footed beasts are found in all theBrasilian world, altogether like unto oursin shape : and that the Tovoupinam-. baultii use not, but very seldome, to bring them up tameat home. But, that I may generally describe the wildebeasts, which the Barbarians call Soo, I determined tobeginne with them which are applyed to the use of seemeth, that that is to bee set in the first place,which also is most common: they call Tapiroussou, of areddish, and long shaggie haire, greatly resembling a Kowin bignesse and shape: yet, seeing it wanteth homes, andhath a shorter necke, with longer and hanging eares, andmore withered and slender legs, with an whole hoofe, veryEnglished,and like unto the hoofe of an Asse, a man may rightly say,readiefor the \\_ participateth the nature of the Kow, and Asse. Not-withstanding it difFereth very much from either, bothbecause it hath a very short taile (here the Reader is by theway to be admonished, that very many beasts are bred i
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