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loudly. The efiect on the tiger was electrical ; it turned 

 quickly on one side, and in two bounds was lost in the forest. 

 I waited until my men came up, however, before passing the 

 place at which it disappeared, in case it might only be lying 

 in ambush there ; but we saw nothing more of it. 



"When returning down the portage and dragging our boats 

 over, we saw a jaguar sitting on a log near the same spot, 

 watching our movements with evident curiosity, and although 

 the men were singing as they hauled the boats along, it did 

 not seem to mind the noise. As soon as it saw that it was 

 observed, it jumped ofi the log, and with a low growl made 

 ofi. From this I infer that the flight of my puma must have 

 been owing more to the windmill-like motion of my arms than 

 to my voice." 



CouLACAifAKA. — "Waterton does not give sufficient descrip- 

 tion of this snake for identification. It is almost certainly 

 Boa imperator. 



It is characteristic of Waterton that he should have sat 

 down immediately after his battle with the snake to send an 

 account of it in Latin hexameters to his old friends at Stony- 

 hurst. Mr. Edmund Waterton only lately discovered the 

 document in pencil among his father's papers. 



CouEADA (Avicennia. nitida). — Sometimes spelled Courida. 

 The White Mangrove of the Colonists. 



The trees grow in profusion on the shore, reaching a height 

 of fifty or sixty feet, and from their upper branches dangle 

 innumerable air-roots, which, when they reach the ground, 

 ■will strike into it, and become the stems of future trees. The 

 manatee is fond of browsing on the leaves of the Courada. 



Ckabwood {Carapa Guiane7isis).— The tree is very useful on 

 account of an oil, called ' ci'ab-oil,' which is expressed from its 

 seeds. It serves various purposes, and gives a good light 

 when burned in a lamp. The timber of the Crabwood is in 

 great request for masts and spars. 



Ouia. — A species of Trogon, similar in size to the boclora, 

 but brighter in colours, as mentioned by Waterton. 



