The third sort they call Connameia, signifying a blind Bee.  They are small like a Fly, and black.  They build in hollow Trees; and their honey somewhat tarrish:  and they make such small quantities of it, that the people little regard it.  The Boyes will sometimes cut a hole and take it out.

[The people eat the Bees, as well as their honey.] When they meet with any swarms of Bees hanging on any Tree, they will hold Torches under to make them drop; and so catch them and carry them home.  Which they boyl and eat, and esteem excellent food.

[Leaches that ly in the grass, and creep on Travellers Legs.] There is a sort of Leaches of the nature of ours, onely differing in colour and bigness.  For they are of a dark reddish colour like the skin of Bacon, and as big as a Goose quill, in length some two or three inches.  At first, when they are young, they are no bigger than a horse hair, so that they can scarce be seen.  In dry weather none of them appear, but immediately upon the fall of Rains, the Grass and Woods are full of them.  These Leaches seize upon the Legs of Travellers; who going barefoot according to the custom of that Land, have them hanging upon their Legs in multitudes, which suck their blood till their bellies are full, and then drop off.  They come in such quantities, that the people cannot pull them off so fast as they crawl on.  The blood runs pouring down their Legs all the way they go, and ’tis no little smart neither, so that they would willingly be without them if they could, especially those that have sores on their Legs; for they all gather to the sore.

[The remedies they use against them.] Some therefore will tie a piece of Lemon and Salt in a rag and fasten it unto a stick, and ever and anon strike it upon their Legs to make the Leaches drop off:  others will scrape them off with a reed cut flat and sharp in the fashion of a knife.  But this is so troublesom, and they come on again so fast and so numerous, that it is not worth their while:  and generally they suffer them to bite and remain on their Legs during their Journey; and they do the more patiently permit them, because it is so wholsome for them.  When they come to their Journeys end they rub all their Legs with ashes, and so clear themselves of them at once:  but still the blood will remain dropping a great while after.  But they are most annoyed by them when they go out to stool a-Nights, being small and of the colour of their bodies, so that they can neither see nor feel to pull them off.  And these, tho they be in such quantities in some of these Countreys, yet in others there are none at all, nor ever were known to have been.  But besides these, there are Water Leaches the same with ours.