THE PACA or BRAZIL. 
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from the howl of the lion, the leopard, the hyaena, the pan- 
ther, the tiger, or the other carnivorous monsters of Africa 
and Asia, — and where its abundant food is neither shared 
nor trampled by the elephant, the camel, the dromedary, 
the rhinoceros, nor the giraffe. It has spread so immense- 
ly over these waste plains, that it affords an inexhaustible 
supply of agreeable and wholesome food, already prepared 
to reward the enterprise and industry of man, in peopling 
and cultivating the rich solitudes of South America, 
