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perfons return early in the morning to the lake, with 



another calabafh^ having holes in it for feeing and 

 breathing. This calabaih he places on his head, and 

 walks in the vvater, with only the calabafh above the 

 furface. In this manner, with all pofllble ftillnefs, 

 he moves towards the geefe, pulling them under water 

 with one hand, and then feizing them with the other. 

 When he has thus taken as many as he is able to 

 carry, he returns towards the fhore, and delivers them 

 to his companion, vv^ho waits for him at a certain 

 diilance in the water. This done, he renews his fport, 

 either till he has taken as many as he defires, or the 

 birds begin to difperfe themfelves over the country. 



Other perfons make it their bufmefs to procure 

 difierent kinds of game, as deer, rabbits, and wild 

 boars, called here iajones but thefe are eaten only by 

 the country Negroes and Indians, except the rabbitS;^, 

 "^hich meet with a good market in the city. 



The wild beads are alfo of various kinds •, as tigers, 

 which make a great havock, not only among the cat- 

 tie, but among the human fpecies. Their fkin is very 

 beautiful, and fome are as large as little horfes *. 

 Here are alfo leopards, foxes, armadillos, a kind of 

 fcaly lizard; ardillas, or fquirrels, and many others 

 befides innumerable kinds of monkies living in the 

 woods, fome remarkable for their fize, and others for 

 their colour. The artifice generally obferved by the 

 fox, in defending itfelf againfb dogs or other animals, 

 by whom it is purfued, by voiding its urine on its 

 own tail and fprinkling it on them, efFe6lually here 

 anfwers the intention the fmell of it being fo ftrong 

 and fetid, that it throws the dogs into diforder, and 

 by thap means the fox efcapes. The ftench of this 

 urine is fo great, that it may be fmelt a quarter of a 

 league from the place \ and very often for half an hour 

 alter. The fox here is not much bigger than a large 

 fati but delicately fhaped ; has a very fine coat, and 

 ^- They are not larger than maflifF dogs, A. 



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