The Chingulays say it is the best sort of flesh; and for this reason, That if you eat other flesh at the same time you eat of this, and have occasion to vomit, you will never vomit out this tho you vomit all the other.

This creature eats not carrion, but only leaves and herbs; is less of size than the Kobbera guion, and blackish, lives in hollow Trees and holes in the Humbosses: And I suppose is the same with that which in the West Indies they call the Guiana.
[The People eat Rats.] This Countrey has its Vermin also.

They have a sort of Rats, they call Musk-Rats, because they smell strong of Musk.

These the Inhabitants do not eat of, but of all other sort of Rats they do.
Before I conclude my discourse of the Growth and Product of this Countrey, it will not be improper to reduce under this head its Precious Stones, Minerals, and other Commodities.

Of which I shall briefly speak, and so make an end of this First Part.
[Precious Stones.] In this Island are several sorts of Precious Stones, which the King for his part has enough of, and so careth not to have more discovery made.