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An Agouti 
hunt 
In the afternoon I went on an Agouti hunt with the 
Carrs and Hutton. We crossed the river, traversed a large 
cacao plantation and finally came to the edge of the forest 
where Arthur Carr put out the dogs, while the rest of us 
hurried on, following a trace which led across a brook 
and up a gentle wooded slope. I stopped in a little 
opening, Carr fifty ya.rds or more beyond, while Hutton 
chose the crest of the ridge. In the meantime our little 
curs had started an Agouti and the still air rang with their 
yelping, while every no?/ and then Arthur Carr encouraged 
or directed them by whooping at the top of his lungs. The 
chase led in our direction but the Agouti did not come 
near me. It passed within long range of Hutton, who fired 
and, as we afterv/ards ascertained, broke one of its fore 
legs. It then turned back and the dogs became silent for 
awhile, but soon afterwards began barking in one spot and 
the Carrs called to me that the Agouti had taken to a hole. 
I hurried to the spot and found my three companions and 
all the dogs collected about a hole v/hich looked very like 
a Woodchuck’s burrow. Albert Carr was guarding another 
entrance and Arthur was digging out the main hole with his 
cutlass. The dogs were half crazy with excitement and 
every now and then one of the smallest would rush into the 
hole and bark and growl as it worried the poor Agouti. 
Finally one of them dragged the animal out and we went home. 
