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“ He seldom raised more than his nostrils above the water, 
he ever delv'd at the near approach of any person. 
“Taken out of the water, the creature breath’d or made an 
indraught of air to his lungs, from five to ten slow and regu- 
lar respirations, and at the end of the fifth, or the tenth time, 
was a total cessation from breathing for about one minute.” 
In another place he writes: “Once this animal was observ'd 
to continue under water upwards of ten minutes. 
" I turn'd the alligator on his back and while I staid by him 
he lay as if lifeless without the least motion, as I observ’d liz- 
ards do when turn'd on their backs; I retir'd for about three 
minutes out of his sight, and on my return he had recover'd 
his first situation. 
“ The tail’s extreme I caus'd to be broil’d on the creature's 
dying, and ate of it. The flesh was extremely white, firm, 
Sweet, moist and juicy, as turtle in whiteness but not so dry, 
not the least musky in taste or smell. My little spaniel dog 
ate very greedily of it." This alligator was a young one. 
The true alligator, it should be remarked, is not found in 
Jamaica. 
2. Elaps, probably E. fulvius ; not Jamaican. 
“A snake known by the name of the poison snake among 
the Indians, but among the Europeans by that of Barber's 
pole. The Indians have no cure for the bite of this creature, 
it being mortal in 10 or 15 minutes, the patient bleeding at 
mouth, eyes, and nose, and thus letting out his life."—(Charles 
Harris). 
“The gentleman who wrote the above is son to Revd. Mr. 
Harris, late Rector of St. Elizabeth [Jamaica] who was in 
company with an Indian that died from a bite of the above 
snake, which he takes to be a species of that received from 
Walrond Teason, Esq., which came from the Spanish main. I 
have described it the Ring Snake because its body is sur- 
rounded with black and yellow rings. Mr. Harris saw the 
above on the Moskito shore." 
The snake is now commonly called the coral snake, but the 
title mentioned, “ Barber's pole,” is more suggestive of its ap- 
pearance. No poisonous snake inhabits Jamaica. 
