WANDERINGS IN 



FIRST the leopard, are found here ; and two of their 



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diminutives, named tiger cats. The tapir, the 



lobba, and deer, afford excellent food, and chiefly 

 frequent the swamps and low ground, near the 

 sides of the river and creeks. 



In stating that four-footed animals are scarce, 

 the peccari must be excepted. Three or four 

 hundred of them herd together, and traverse the 

 wilds in all directions in quest of roots and fallen 

 seeds. The Indians mostly shoot them with poi- 

 soned arrows. When wounded, they run about 

 one hundred and fifty paces ; they then drop, and 

 make wholesome food. 



The red monkey, erroneously called the baboon, 

 is heard oftener than it is seen ; while the common 

 brown monkey, the bisa, and sacawinki, rove 

 from tree to tree, and amuse the stranger as he 

 journeys on. 



A species of the polecat, and another of the fox, 

 are destructive to the Indian's poultry; while the 

 opossum, the guana, and salempenta, afford him a 

 delicious morsel. 



The small ant-bear, and the large one, remark- 

 able for his long, broad, bushy tail, are sometimes 

 seen on the tops of the wood ants' nests ; the 

 armadillas bore in the sand hills, like rabbits in 

 a warren; and the porcupine is now and then 

 discovered in the trees over your head. 

 The sloth. This, too, is the native country of the sloth. 

 His looks, his gestures, and his cries, all conspire 



