FURRY ANIMALS 



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there was not the creaking of branches that the 

 weighty iguana would have made. I found, 

 sitting there, that all the racket had been made 

 by a big, bright, red-tailed squirrel. While I 

 watched him from thirty feet away he hung from 

 the side of a tree, head down, eating a nut which 

 he held in his forepaws. 



Moving about before I went down the hill to 

 the shack, I almost ran over a tall, odd animal, 

 that looked as if he had been put together by 

 sticking a rabbit's head on a pig's body. The 



Aftei Alston 



Fig. 73. Nequi 



natives call these nequis (Fig. 73), and find them 

 good eating. I thought the meat tasted rather 

 like squirrel. This particular nequi seemed to 

 live in a hole near my camp, and we found other 

 nequi holes as we went about the island. The 



