54 A VOYAGE TO Book I. 



perfons return early in the morning to the lake, with 

 another calabafh, having holt^s in it for feeing and 

 breathing This calabafh he places on his head, and 

 walks in the water, with only the calabafh above the 

 furface. In this manner, with all poffible tlillnefs, 

 he moves towards the geefe, pulling them under water 

 with one hand, and then feizing them with the other. 

 When he has thus taken as many as he is able to 

 carry, he returns towards the fhore, and delivers them 

 to his companion, who waits for him at a certain dif- 

 tance in the water. This done, he renews his fport, 

 either till he has taken as many as he deñres, or the 

 birds begin to difperfe over the country. 



Other perfons make it their buñnefs to procure 

 ¡different kinds of game, as deer, rabbits, and w'úá 

 boars, called here fajones ; but thefe are eaten only by 

 the country Negroes and Indians, except the rabbits^ 

 which meet with a good market in the city. 



The wild beaíís are alfo of various kinds ; as tigers, 

 which make a great havock, not only among the cat- 

 tle, but among the human fpecies. Their ikin is very 

 beautiful, and fome are as large as little horfes*. 

 Here are alfo leopards, foxes, armadillos, a kind of 

 fcaly lizard; ardilla?, or fquirrcls, and many others; 

 befides innumerable kinds of monkies living in the 

 woods, fome remarkable for their fize, others for their 

 colour. The artifice generally obferved by the fox, in 

 defending iticlf againii dogs or other animals, by 

 whom it is purfucd, by voiding its urine on its own 

 tail and fprinkling it on theiri, eifcduaily here anfwers 

 the intention; the irnell of it being lb it ronii and fetid, 

 that it throws the dogs into diforder, and thus the fox 

 efcapcs. The ftench of this urine is fo great, that it 

 may be fraelt a quarter of a league from the place; 

 and very often, for half an hour after.' The (ú\ here 

 is not much bigger than a large cat; but dilicately 

 ihapcd ; has a very fine coal, and of a cinnamon 



i ?! 'Tr:er than maftiff dogs, A. 



colour : 



