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mediately cut it off. If the individual happens to be alone he does 
this for himself (G, 1, 262-263). The association of armadillo and 
snake is also drawn attention to in one of the legends (WER, v1, 
sec. 7). 
166. Many of the Indians appear to have a great dread of coming 
into direct contact with the ant bear or giant anteater (Myrme- 
cophaga) ; and after disabling him in the chase never think of ap- 
proaching him until he is quite dead (W, 206). There is a reference 
to this practice in the story of “ How the anteater fooled the man” 
(WER, v1, sec. 153). He is said to be able to crush to death with his 
claws not only a jaguar or tapir, but even a man. I only know of 
the flesh being eaten by Carib. 
167. Of the bush hogs, better known perhaps as the peccary or 
kairuni (Dicotyles labiatus) and the abuya (DP. torquatus), the more 
formidable is the former. The characteristic dorsal scent gland of 
these animals, which for well over a century was regarded as the 
navel, has to be cut out immediately after death, as otherwise the 
flesh can hardly. be eaten. As a matter of fact the term applied to 
the creature, kairuni, is derived from the Makusi word kair, signify- 
ing “stinking” (SR, um, 95). Like those of the deer, etc., the entrails 
are eaten and relished. It runs in herds, sometimes comprising be- 
tween 200 and 300, and woe betide the Indian if he comes upon them 
unprepared, in which case his only chance of escape lies in climbing 
a tree. Fermin, it is true, would have us believe that the surer way 
is to wait for them without stirring, and to void one’s urine. because 
they dread the smell very much (FE, mu, 92-93). Brown describes 
the method adopted by Parmu, his Carib companion, as follows: 
His plan of shooting hogs was to get in their front, and when they 
charged or ran he stepped behind a large tree, around which the 
drove passed on either hand. As they held on their way he dis- 
charged his arrows into the mass with good effect. Although ib 
seemed to be a dangerous proceeding, hemmed in for a few moments 
on both sides by hogs with a tree at his back, it was not so, for they 
never attempt to turn when rushing forward in this way (BB, 252). 
On the Cotinga . . . dogs are trained to force away a straggler 
from the pack and endeavor to surround it until the hunter gets up 
and can shoot it. When this is killed the dogs hasten to secure a 
second and a third, etc., out of the pack. Should the hunter meet 
a drove and not have his dogs with him, he tries his best to sneak 
onto the quarry, and then climbs a tree, whence he imitates the bark- 
ing of a dog. The animals hardly hear the sound before they rush 
in the direction where their arch enemy is supposed to be, and sur- 
round the tree, whence the Indian, with his bow and arrow, can now 
slay several (SR, u, 164). Gumilla talks of the Orinoco Indians as 
