. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . bands ofgray and black. Its body, which was about the size of our rabbits,was green with black marks. Along its back Avas a row of leath-ery spines (longer than in the species figured), and beneath itsthroat Avas a pouch or dcAvlap. I skinned its body, and got one ofthe bongo men to cure the skin for me by rubbing it Avith Avood-ashes. Its flesh, Avhich is eaten by the natives, looked good, and Inoticed that it had the
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . bands ofgray and black. Its body, which was about the size of our rabbits,was green with black marks. Along its back Avas a row of leath-ery spines (longer than in the species figured), and beneath itsthroat Avas a pouch or dcAvlap. I skinned its body, and got one ofthe bongo men to cure the skin for me by rubbing it Avith Avood-ashes. Its flesh, Avhich is eaten by the natives, looked good, and Inoticed that it had the same odor as that of our bull-frog. At thisplace there Avere a feAV Indian huts, and around them a small grove THE MAGDALENA RIVER. 73 of cacao-trees, from which chocolate is made. They were notover twenty-five feet high, smooth barked and big leaved. The fruitlooked very much like an oblong- warty squash, and grew close tothe main trunk and large limbs. They were about eight incheslong, some green, others a deep purplish red, and wdien cut openshowed a white pith in which w^ere imbedded bean-like seeds thesize of our lima beans but thicker. These, when ripe, are taken. IGUANA TUBERCULATA. out, roasted, and then ground between two stones, mixed withcoarse sugar, and the result is chocolate. Hung up against one ofthe huts to dry, I saw several peccary skins of the plain unhandedspecies [Dlcotyles labiatus). I was told that they were common inthe forest here. Lower down along the river the native huts are made of a wattleof split bamboo, or small sticks, daubed with mud and thatchedwith palm-leaves (see page 55), but here the walls are made in a 14: A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. different manner. The large cane or bamboo, tlie guaduas, whichoften is six inches in diameter, is taken and partially split in annmber of places about an inch apart, after which the whole tubecan be opened out, making a very rough plank from a foot toeighteen inches in width. These are lashed to the fr
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