The bees are small and dark-colored, and do not live in the hollows of trees and rocks, but build their nests among the branches--using on them a dark, coarse wax, which is so strong that, even though it rains hard, not a drop of water enters.

So much is gathered there that not only are we all supplied cheaply, but there are sent to Nueva Espana, Japon, and China more than two thousand quintals each year.

There are many deer, not so slender as are ours; and there are no other animals.

There are many wood-fowl, smaller than ordinary ones, but more palata le; and which have breasts like partridges.

There are in the forests certain shoots called _bejucos_, which they use as we do osiers here; but they are much better, some of them being as thick as one's thumb, and even larger, and six or eight brazas long.