A NATURALIST IN THE GUIANAS 



CHAPTER V 



PAGE 



Cock-fighting and its history — The training of cocks in Venezuela — 

 The cockpit— Bull-fighting — Carr6ras de Cintas— Golfo — Paro 

 pinto— Monte de dados— Gambling banks 76- 



CHAPTER VI 



Departure from Ciudad-Bolivar, December 6, 1900 — The chubasco— 

 The Gates of Hell— Alligator hunting — Trade in alligator skins— 

 On board the ' Caura ' — Fish spearing by torchlight— Mapire . 90' 



CHAPTER VII 



Humboldt's description of the Caura — Llanos of the Cam-a — Cattle- 

 rearing — Revolution of 1898 — Waterfowl — Puerto Antonio Liccioni 

 — Mosquitos and flies— Maripa and Aiipao — Pinta disease — The 

 Mato — Piaroas — Cormorants — La zona de los bosques . . . 100 



CHAPTER VIII 



Temblador — Departure for La Prision — La Prision — Ants— Our 



quarters — Method of keeping accounts — House building . .117 



CHAPTER IX 



LA PKISION 



Manufacture of sugar — Method of packing — Molasses and stills — 

 Trade — Cabbage palm and giub — Faculties of insects — Hunting 

 and fishing — Fishing with dynamite — Rise and fall of the Caura — 

 Voracious fish — In dreamland 1'2(> 



CHAPTER X 



FAONA AND FLORA OF LA PKISION — THE CLEABING 



Hornets— Butterflies — Nightjars — The wood-nightjar — Hawks — The 

 Guaco— Rice-birds — Ants and ant-thrushes — Man and the other 

 animals — Utopia 140 



CHAl'TER XI 



FADNA AND FLORA OF LA PRISION — THE FOREST 



Bejucales — Curassows, grullas — Tinamus — Habits of curassows — The 

 king-tody and other flycatchers — Scarcity of snakes in the forest — 

 The jaguar — Orchids— The lajas— The evenings at La Prision . 152 



