200 THE CRUISE OF THE ' CUBAgOA.' 



ducks, turkeys, and guinea fowls have been introduced, and 

 thrive, but not so well as the common barndoor fowl. 



There are no venomous reptiles in the island. There is 

 a large serpent, about four feet long, the back dun-coloured, 

 the belly a dirty yellow. One other snake is found on the 

 shore, about four feet long, with alternate bands of black 

 and white across the body. There are three or four species 

 of small lizards, and two kinds of turtle. 



More tlian a hundred species of fish are found at Anatom. 

 They are nearlj' all different fi'om tliose found in the 

 northern hemisphere, and not at all equal to them as food, 

 being, with few exceptions, hard and dry. Sharks are 

 numerous, and shell-fish too. 



Butterfiies abound, some very beautiful. Beetles of 

 different kinds, both large and small. Locusts, grasshop- 

 pers, flies, mosquitoes, spiders, ants, lice, and fleas. Fleas 

 are said to have been brought by Europeans. 



The common articles of barter anions; the natives are 

 fishing baskets, nets, sleeping mats, hand baskets, pigs, 

 fowls, taro, and cocoa-nuts. With foreigners, pigs, fowls, 

 taro, bananas, cocoa-nuts, sugar cane, &c. are given for 

 articles of European clothing, hatchets, knives, fish-hooks, 

 &c. The natives use spears, clubs, bows and arrows ; their 

 spears, like most I procured in this group, are very crooked, 

 and more rudely made than those I met with in ai;y other 

 island. 



