CHAPTER III. Of the Howler, the Su, and Peva.
THe Howler is cunning,* 1.1 faining an in∣fants cry in the beginning of the night at towns ends, and kills those that in pity run out to help upon hearing the mone. But now the towns-men are well warned, and goe forth armed with fire-brands. It is like a Hare-hound in shape, and bulk.
The Su, i. e. water, because living by rivers most what,* 1.2 is found among the Patagons. Some call it Succarath. It hath a fierce Lions looke, yet is bearded from the eare like a man, short-haired, the belly strutting out, lank flank∣ed, the tail large and long, as a squirrells. The giantlike men there, the climate being not very hote, wear the skins, for which, when hunted they lay their young on their back, and cover them with their tail, and so run away, but are taken, whelps, and all in pits covered with boughs. Being fast in, for rage, or generous∣nesse they kill their whelps, and cry hideously to fright the hunters; they shoot him dead with arrows, and flea him. Some fain that they in fondnesse carry their young to medows, and there they dresse each other with garlands of faire sweet flowers.
The Peva is as big as a small Cat.* 1.3 Spying the Tiger, she traces him, ever barking to warn all creatures of the danger. Hence we see often, that they dy in the fields for hunger.