of an Orchid Hunter 



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produce the desired picture, and then instructed one 

 of the natives to touch the spring which exposes 

 the plate, this plate being carried away and 

 developed at a more convenient time. An instance 



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AFTER THE JAGUAR HUNT, 



will illustrate how the turkey-buzzards and the 

 vultures do their work in taking the place of 

 scavengers. At the time we killed the jaguar not 

 a bird was to be seen in the sky, but before we 

 had taken off the skin at least a hundred vultures 

 were wheeling overhead, and by evening a few 

 scattered bones were all that remained of our orame. 



