BRASILIAN PORCUPINE. 
natives eat his flesh. Denis, too, in his De- 
scription de TAmerique, remarks that the flesh 
is very good; and, that it is scalded Hke that of 
the Hog. But the female Indians previously 
pull ofF all the quills from the back, of which 
they make various trinkets. After being 
scalded, washed^ and roasted on a spit, it is of 
equal value with a Pig. 
In Buffbn's supplement to this article, which 
seems referable to our Brasilian Porcupine, ra-- 
ther than to the Mexican species, he observes 
that, *' there are, in Guiana, two species of 
Coendous. The largest, weighing from twelve 
to fifteen pounds, keep always on the highest 
trees. They eat nothing in the day-time. 
Their odour is very strong, and is scented" at 
ii great distance. The females bring forth 
their young, to the number of two, in the 
boles of trees. They feed on the leaves of 
ihese treesy and are not very common. Their 
lesli is extremely good;, and the Negroes pre- 
"er it to that of the Paca. According to M, 
)e la Borde, the two species never mix. 
They are not found in pairs^ except in the 
sason of love. At other timesj they are soli- 
tary ; 
