. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. I 1 i 'i Â¥ 1 t â¢Hi â li !i t ill 1. m >!; 216 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. wliere cruelly stinging ants and scorpions, and swamps, and innumerable thorny shrubs and bushes, obstruct the steps of civilised man. Were you to draw your own concluisious from the descriptions which have been given of the sloth, you would probably suspect
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. I 1 i 'i Â¥ 1 t â¢Hi â li !i t ill 1. m >!; 216 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. wliere cruelly stinging ants and scorpions, and swamps, and innumerable thorny shrubs and bushes, obstruct the steps of civilised man. Were you to draw your own concluisious from the descriptions which have been given of the sloth, you would probably suspect, that no naturalist has actually gone into the wilds with the fixed determination to find him out and examine his haunts and see whether nature has committed any blunder in the formation of this extraordinary creature, which appears to us so forlorn and miserable, so ill jait together, and so totally unfit to enjoy the blessings which have been so bountifully given to the rest of animated nature; for, as it has formerly been remarked, he has no soles to his feet, and he is evide' :\y ill at ease when he tries to move on the ground, and it is then tliat he looks up in your face with a countenance that says, " Have pity on me, for I am in pain and ; It mostly happens that Indians and Negroes are the people who catch the sloth, and bring it to the white man: hence it may be conjectured that the erroneous accounts we have hitherto had of the sloth, have not been penned down with the slightest intention to mislead the reader, or give liirn an exaggerated history, but that these errors have naturally arisen by examining the sloth in those places where nature never intended that he lihould be exhibited. However, we are now in his own domain. Man but little frecpients these thick and noble forests, whi!",h extend far and wide on every side of us. This, then, is the proper place to go in quest of the sloth. We will first take a near view of him. By obtaining
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