ABSTRACT
THere is a Region in the New-found Wor ld , called Gigantes, and the Inhabitants thereof are called Pantagones 5 now becaufe their Countrey is cold, being far in the South , they clothe themfelves with the skins of a Beaft called in their own tongue Su} for by reafon that this Beaft liveth for the moft part neer the waters, therefore they call it by the name of Su, which fignifieth water. The t rue Image thereof as it was taken by Ihevetus^ I have here inferted, for it is of a very deformed fhäpe, and monftrous prefence, a great ravener and untamable wilde Beaft. When the Hunters that defire her skin fet upon her, fhe flyeth very fwift, carrying her young ones upon her back, and covering rhem with her broad ta i l : now forfomuch as no D o g or Man d^reth to approach neer unto her, (becaufe fuch is the wrath thereof5that in the purfuit fhe killeth all that cometh near her : ) the Hunters dig feveral pits or great holes in the earth,which they cover with boughs, fticks, and earth, fo weakly tha t if the Beaft chance at any time to come upon it, fhe and her young ones fall down into the pit and are taken.
