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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
YAPOCK OR WATER OPOSSUM. CH1RONECTES PANAMENSIS, GOLDMAN 
From a water color drawing by Isabel Cooper. 
cult to keep constantly from coughing and 
sneezing and so frightening the animals. When 
they did go, it was in the fraction of a second; 
one moment there were untold myriads, the 
next not one was any where near us, nor in the 
most distant part of our searchlight’s path. 
Near the end of our journey, after passing 
the sentry, we awakened our motor boatman, and 
pushed off. Five minutes later I caught a white¬ 
eyed opossum with three young which had also 
gone to sleep in the boat and was doing a Mara¬ 
thon around the gunwale of her suddenly made 
island. An hour later the yacht loomed up in 
the mist and as I went down the companionway 
to my cabin, the first streaks of the new tropical 
day were spreading over the great canal. 
