arges
upon him.

[How they take the Wild Boar.] The wild Hog is of all other the
hardest to be caught; and 'tis dangerous to attempt the catching of
him. For the people make valour to consist in three things, one is to
fight against the Enemy, another to hunt the Elephant, and the third
to catch Hoggs. Yet sometimes by their art they entrap them. And
that they do after this manner. They dig an hole in the Earth of
a convenient depth, and fix divers sharp stakes in the bottom of
it. Then they cover it over lightly with Earth and Leaves, and plant
thereupon roots which the Hog loves, as Potatoes or such like, which
will grow there. And the pit remains, it may be sometimes months or
half a year, till at last an Hog comes, and while he is rooting his
weight betrayes him and in he falls.

Again, sometimes they will set a falling trap of an exceeding weight,
and under it plant Roots and such like things, which the Hog delights
in. There are contrivances under the weeds and leaves, which when he
goes to eat by touching or treading upon something fastned to the trap,
it falls down upon him. These are made so artificially, that people
sometimes have been caught and destroyed by them. Once such a trap
in my remembrance fell upon three women and killed them. Who having
been stealing Cotton in a Plantation, and fearing to be catched went
to creep out at a hole, where this Trap stood.

And thus I have related some of their ways of taking wild Cattel. They
are good also at catching Birds and Vermin; In fine, they are the
cunningest people in the World for such kind of traps and gins. And
all of them they make onely by the help of their Knives with green
sticks and withs that grow in the Woods. And so much of their Beasts.

CHAP. VII.

Of their Birds, Fish, Serpents, Commodities.

[Their Birds.] In the next place I will entertain you with some
relation of the other living Creatures among them. I begin with their
Birds. In that Land there are Crowes, Sparrowes, Tom-titts, Snipes,
just like these in England, Wood-Pigeons also, but not great flocks
of any sorts, as we have, onely of Crowes and Pigeons. I have seen
there Birds just like Woodcocks and Partridges, but they are scarce. A
great many wild Peacocks: small green Parrots, but not very good to
talk. But here is another [Such as will be taught to speak.] Bird
in their Language called Mal-cowda, which with teaching will speak
excellently well. It is black with ye