that the dogs and cutlasses did the rest after the poor 
creature had taken to the river as a last desperate resort. 
The noise during this final scene (which, fortunately, I 
did not witness) was something tremendous. The men yelled 
and screamed, the dogs yelped and barked and the deer, 
as Carr afterwards assured me, added its voice to the 
general clamor, "bawling 11 , as he expressed it, loudly. It 
repeatedly struck the dogs and forced them under water 
but the plucky little curs stuck to it closely through the 
whole mele'fe. 
I went only to the first reach of the river where 
Chapman had taken his stand-. Presently the men came with 
the deer which one of them bore on his shoulders. It was 
an odd-looking animal with short, rounded ears, very small 
pointed head, delicate hoofs andjrather short, stout legs. 
The entire head and neck were practically devoid of hair 
and the skin was a dark slaty color. It was a doe and 
pregnant, the fawn being of nearly full size and prettily 
spotted. The weight of the doe "undressed" was 80-g- pounds. 
Carr says that the species never exceeds 90 pounds in weight 
The male has small horns but they are always covered with 
skin. There is another species of deer found here which 
has naked horns. 
In the afternoon four beautiful Tanagers ( Call istg i 
flaviventris vieilloti ) came into the cacao trees near the 
house and I shot at one of them but missed it. 
