128° ISLES OF SUMMER, 
the same figure and conformation nearly (though not wholly) 
prevailing ineach. The iguanaisone of the intermediate species, 
and is usually about three feet long, and proportionally bulky. 
It lives chiefly among fruit trees, and is perfectly gentle and in- 
noxious.” He says they had then ‘‘ become generally scarce,” 
except in placesseldom visited by man. Also that ‘the English, 
even when they were more plentiful, did not often serve them 
at elegant tables, but their French and Spanish neighbors, less 
squeamish, still devour them with exquisite relish.” Also that 
a lady ‘‘of great beauty and elegance,” assured him, from her 
own experience, that they are ‘‘ equal in flavor and wholesomeness 
to the finest green turtle.” That ‘‘P. Labat likewise speaks of 
a fricasseed guana with high approbation. He compares it to a 
chicken for the whiteness of its flesh and the delicacy of its flavor.” 
He quotes from the work of this “ good father,” (Tom iii, p. 
316,) his description of the novel mode then in vogue of captur- 
ing this species of game. ‘‘ We were attended,” he says, “‘by a 
negro, who carried a long rod, at one end of which was a piece 
of whip cord with arunning knot. After beating the bushes for 
some time, the negro discovered our game basking in the sun on 
a dry limb of a tree. Hereupon he began whistling with all his 
might, to which the guana was wonderfully attentive, stretching 
out his neck and turning his head, as if to enjoy it more fully. 
The negro now approached, still whistling, and advancing his 
rod gently, began tickling with the end of it the sides and throat 
of the guana, who seemed mightily pleased with the operation, 
for he turned on his back, and stretched out like a cat before the 
fire, and at length fairly fell asleep, which the negro perceiving, 
dexterously slipt the noose over his head, and with ajerk brought 
him to the ground; and good sport it afforded to see the creature 
swell like a turkey-cock at finding himself entrapped. Wecaught 
others in the same way, and kept one of them alive seven or eight 
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