Which they boyl and eat, and esteem excellent food.
[Leaches that ly in the grass, and creep on Travellers Legs.] There is a sort of Leaches of the nature of ours, onely differing in colour and bigness.

For they are of a dark reddish colour like the skin of Bacon, and as big as a Goose quill, in length some two or three inches.

At first, when they are young, they are no bigger than a horse hair, so that they can scarce be seen.

In dry weather none of them appear, but immediately upon the fall of Rains, the Grass and Woods are full of them.

These Leaches seize upon the Legs of Travellers; who going barefoot according to the custom of that Land, have them hanging upon their Legs in multitudes, which suck their blood till their bellies are full, and then drop off.