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moisture entirely evaporate. Wlien tlms prepared, 
the remaining mass is as palatable as the best 
European biscuit. If the expressed juice be swal- 
lowed by either man or beast, death ensues, ac- 
companied vith excruciating pains ; but when the 
juice is boiled, it forms an innoxious and even a 
pleasant beverage. ]\Ir. Guilding mentions, that 
by the act of boiling only, this juice is (in the 
Demerara settlement) converted into the rich and 
dark sauce called cassaripe. The native Indians 
form of dark clay their pots wliich bear the name 
of this sauce, serving to season the hunter’s daily 
meal ; and the colonist has introduced the custom 
into his more luxui-ious dwelling. The plan is, to 
tlirow into the cassaripe pot, which is never cleaned 
or altogether emptied, the remains of meat and 
poultry ; to add the sauce, and stir the compmmd 
preparation, which is said to form a most delicious 
meal. In order still further to embellish the above 
plate. Madam Merian has introduced a fine mottled 
snake in a grand state, together with a group of 
its eggs. The figure not noticed in the text, which 
is miserably engraved, is the curious Metnlracis 
foUata. Plates vu. vm. and ix. illustrate respec- 
tively the Viuious conditions of three splendid but- 
terflies, Pap. Achilles, Nymphalis Amphinome, and 
Pap. Nestor. The former of these plates is of con- 
siderable value, as affording an excellent repre- 
sentation of one of the largest and most highly 
ornamented of tropical butterflies, accompanied vith 
a good figure of the laiva, which seems to be of 
