CONTENTS. XV 



CHAPTER II. 



Tlie Yanillsl — Meaning of the word— Small Cayman— Daddy Qiiashi 



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

 Enake — 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 life — Piwarri — The Pee-ay-man — ^A 

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

 his services — Wounded warriors — Valour rewarded — Education — 

 Character of the native — Skill in hunting — A bead 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 imquiet night — Dissection of the snake — Daddy Quash! 

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

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

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

 ' suckers and Campanero ....,,,, 248— 



CHAPTER IV. 



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

 Gruana 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 ciu-e — Feats of 

 climbing — Quebec — Irish emigrants — Ticonderoga — Saratoga — 

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

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



