CHAP, iv.] WEST INDIES, 95 



CHAPTER IV. 



Land animals used as food. Fishes and wild fowl. Indian 

 method of fishing and fowling. Esculent vegetables, be. 

 Conclusion. 



IN tracing the several tribes of quadrupeds, pro- 

 perly so called, which anciently existed in the 

 West Indies, it will be found that the Windward 

 or Charaibean islands, possessed all that were pos- 

 sessed by the larger islands, and some species which 

 in the latter were unknown. It is likewise observa- 

 ble, that all the animals of the former are still found 

 in Guiana, and few or none of them in North Ame- 

 rica: These are additional proofs that the Windward 

 islands were anciently peopled from the South. The 

 enumeration of them follows: 



1, the Agouti; 



2, the Pecary; 



3, the Armadillo; 



4, the Opossum; 



5, the Racoon ; 



6, the Musk-rat; 



7, the Alco; 



8, the smaller Monkey of several varieties. 



