among the rest wrote after diuers copies such as eyther to auoide idlenesse, they imagined, or else their natures béeing chaunged, may as hardly of this last age be beléeued) as appeareth by my notes set ouer against euery Chapter, where any notable thing worthy of plainer skil is set down thronghout the whole booke. I finde latelye printed in the historye of the West and East Indias, a pretie dis∣course of fishing, & of the names of some Fishes that Plinie speaketh not of, brée∣ding in those coasts, as the Moxarre, Di∣ahace, Dahaos, delicate fish: Palamite, Lizze, Polpi, Chieppe, Xaibas, with sun∣dry other that are not named. The most chiefest sorts that the Indians is saith to make account of, are thrée sorts of fishes. The great Torteise, whose shells are an ell in length, and in breadeth more then fiue yards, which I take to be the whole compasse, for obseruing the forme of pro∣portion: the Tiburon and the Manate, the Tiburon is a very great fish, & verie quicke and swift in the water, and a rauenous fish, they are taken by follow∣ing the shippe, although vnder saile, yet will the fish flote after, the space of an hundred and fiftie leagues: they are ta∣ken with double hookes fastned to strong roapes, whereon is fastned flesh or fish, these fishes haue their téeth double row∣ed, and doe bite daungerously, they are so great, ye twelue or fiftéene men are searce able to drawe them forth of the water, from sixe foote in length to twelue foote, & two yardes broade, informe like to the Soule Fish, and in such sorte skinned rough, the flesh is verye good and whole∣some. The Fish Manate is bigger then ye Tiburon, the head of this fish is like to ye head of an Ore, with also like eyes: in stéed of foure legges, he hath two short stumpes, flat and finnie, wherewith hée swimmeth, and is very gentle and fame, and commeth often times forth of ye wa∣ter, and créepeth on land néere the shore, where if he find any herbage, he catcth it, this fish is takē wt harping yrons & hooks, this fish is reported to be ye best of all o∣ther great fishes, for yt his flesh being cut is hardly discerned from béefe, in colour raw, & in tast being soddē, & wil abide pon¦dring with salt, as our Béefe doth, & the young of these fishes eat like veale, sweet & delicate. There is also ye Vihuella, this fish bereth in the top of his head a long blade, a strong and sharpe finne lyke a swoord, and is bigger then the Manate, of some called the Swoord fish, but not of that kinde, that is néere the coasts of Spaine, Fraunce, England, and Ireland. Many fishes there are, that doe flie with broad fins, as the Bats doe with theyr tylme wings, so long as their wings bée wet, for they are so thinne, that by the sodaine drieng of the aire and wind, bée∣ing stiffe, they fal into the water againe. Also of the taking of Whales in Russe•• and of the trade of fishing in other coun∣tries. Read the Decades, and the disco∣uery of ye Indias. Ges. in his booke of fish.