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Dogrflyegjbut somewhat less. They. begin at the breast andbeily ,and in a short space eat oik all the skin of the face. Someos them ye like Lepers, and gievoufly scratch themselves, andthe disease still continuing, and these vermine increasing, theirhumors arespect, and they extreamly tormented, till at lengththey bee killed and consumed by them.'
CHAP. XXXII.
Of American Bets.
I N the West-Indies the Bees are small, about the bigness of Gancalo Fer-Flies, or somewhat greater, and the poipts of their wings cut nwdisdcoverrhwarr,and have through the middle of the wing, one white 0 »>edo n»tp-line across. They have no sting. Istonfdcu'
They make great Hony-combs, and the. holes in them are ind^c, J0 ,four times greater than the cells of one Em as tan Bees, althoughthey bee much smaller, their hony is good and wholesome,but itis very dark,like wine being boyled.
In the Island of Cvzmel, which is near the coast of Jucatati, Rhamuseothere are many Hives of Bees like those of Spain , but less, and vol.tetto del lemuch hony, and wax , the hony is like the Spamfi hony , but Indie I.17.C.1.somewhat sharper.
In the Island of Hijpaniola are no Beer, that ever I saw orheard of. In the firm land are very many, and of many kinder, ^Q^* e j 0as well as in the form and shape of the creature,as also in the va- )a g encri j e &rietyof the caste and colour of the hony, and difference of the naturalehtfo-yyax. " ri» des sa India
But though Oviada neither saw nor heard of any,yet are there '•'< c *‘ a P udBees in Hifpanhla> but as small as Flies, which sting not; their p ur ^“ t * llg ° ‘hive* are four times as great as ours, their hony is white. partl.j c 3 -
In the Indits are sew swarms of Bees (hee understands do- jo.AcofU. 4 >mestickBees, which then were rare, but now in many places c,31.common.
Their Hony-combes are found in trees, or under the ground,and not in H ives as in Castile. The Hony-combes,which I haveseen in the Province of Cbarcat , which they call Cbiguanas areof a gray colour 3 and have little juice, and are more like unto
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