THE XIBARO. 
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of Surinam. When I was journeying up to the 
mountains of Maimon beyond the Yuna river, our 
path in the pine forests was crossed by a solitary Dog 
of peculiar make. As it lurched past us, I heard for 
the first time the Xibaro spoken of. When we 
came to the spot at which the dog had skulked into 
sight, we found, a little way off our track, deforest hog^ 
which had been run down, and just slaughtered. 
The entrails were torn open, and the Xibaro had 
been gloating on the reeking blood and steaming 
viscera. My inquiries led to some precise informa- 
tion about this race of wild dogs. Tradition makes 
them Indian. They maintain a uniform character in 
every district in which they are known. They are 
prick-eared, middle-sized, and light-coloured. A 
sketch supplied me by a Spanish friend, I find still 
preserved among my St. Domingo notes, and I close 
this account of the Alco with a copy of it, as the re- 
presentation of a remanent aboriginal hunting dog.”^ 
THE MANATEE. 
June \Sth, — A Manatee (Manatus Americanus) 
fortunately fell under my observation at Savanna-le- 
Mar ; having been just captured by getting itself en- 
* “ I met somewhere in my reading a short time ago with the word 
‘ Xibaro,’ applied, as a South American term, to the Wild Dog of the 
Savannas. The animal spoken of by Col. Hamilton Smith at the 
conclusion of his notice of the Feral Hound of St. Domingo, as the 
Wild Dog of Mexico, and the ‘ Cimarron ’ of the Pampas, answers in 
all respects the description of the Xibaro ; — small sized, with erect 
ears ; bold and sagacious ; not hostile to man, but destructive to the 
calves and foals of the wild herds ; hunting singly and in troops ; and 
burrowing in the open country.” 
