CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



The Vanilla^Meaning of the word— Small Cayman— Daddy Quashi— 

 Wasps — ^Venomous reptiles and wild beasts — Poison of the Labarri 

 snake— Experiment with a Labarri— The Bete-rouge— The Chegoe 

 — Its nest — Ticks, and how to get rid of them — The five tribes— 

 Their habitations and mode of hf e — Piwarri — The Pee-ay-man — A 

 nation without a history — Runaway negroes — Mr. Edmonstone and 

 his services — "Womided warriors — Valour rewarded — Education — 

 Character of the native— Skill in hunting — A head almanac — The 

 sun as a compass — Thinness of population 232 — 247 



CHAPTER III. 



Discovery of a large Coulacanara snake — A Bush-master — Stag swal- 

 lowed by a Boa — Negroes and the snake — Arrangements for the 

 attack — The snake struck — Carrying off the enemy — A snake in a 

 bag — An unquiet night — Dissection of the snake — Daddy Quashi 

 and his dread of snakes — Capture of a Coulacanara — Vultures and 

 their food — Habits of Vultures — The Aura vulture — Black vultures 

 — Severe blisters — An inquisiiive Jaguar — Fish shooting — Goat- 

 suckers and Canipanero 248 — 262 



CHAPTER IV. 



Fishing for a Cayman — A shark-hook useless — Sting-rays — Turtle and 

 Guana nests — Numbers of eggs— Another failure — Meeting a Jaguar 

 ^Guard against fever — More failures — A native hook and way of 

 baiting — The Cayman's dinner-bell — Caught at last — How to secure 

 the reptile — Mounting a Cayman — An improvised bridle — Skin and 

 teeth of the Cayman — Embarkment for England — Collision with 

 the Custom House . 263—284 



FOURTH JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



Three years in England — Sail for New York — Nomenclature— Altera- 

 tion of scenery — A sprained ankle— Magnificent cure- Feats of 

 climbing — Quebec — Irish emigrants — Ticonderoga — Saratoga- 

 Philadelphia — White-headed Eagle— Form and Fashion— Climate 

 ^^Forebodings of the civil war— Sail for Antigua . . . 285—309 



