. Wanderings in South America &c [microform]. Indians of South America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. 262 INDIAN CAYMAN-HOOK. «â â â forest to hunt, and we took the canoe to shoot fish and get another supply of turtles' eggs, which we found in great abundance on .;his large sand-bank. We went to the little shallow creek and shot some young caymen, about two feet long. It was astonish- ing to see what spite and rage these little things showed when the arrow struck them; they turned round and bit it, and snapped at us when we went into the water to take them up. Daddy Quash
. Wanderings in South America &c [microform]. Indians of South America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. 262 INDIAN CAYMAN-HOOK. «â â â forest to hunt, and we took the canoe to shoot fish and get another supply of turtles' eggs, which we found in great abundance on .;his large sand-bank. We went to the little shallow creek and shot some young caymen, about two feet long. It was astonish- ing to see what spite and rage these little things showed when the arrow struck them; they turned round and bit it, and snapped at us when we went into the water to take them up. Daddy Quashi boiled one of them for his dinner, and found it very sweet and tender. I do not see why it should not be as good as frog or veal. -. The day was now declining apace, and the Indian had made his instrument to take the cayman. It was very simple. There were four pieces of tough hard wood, a foot long, and about as thick as your little finger, and barbed at both ends. They were tied round the end of the rope in such a manner that if you conceive the rope to be an arrow, these four sticks would form the arrow's head; so that one end of the four united sticks answered to the point of the arrow-head, while the other ends of the sticks ex- panded at equal distances round the rope, thusâ / SIJ i^trj-^ i^^^T, ^yr^ir^r-^. Now, it is evident that if the cayman swallowed this (the other end of the rope, which was thirty yards long, being fastened to a tree), the more he pulled the \'.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865. London; Edinburgh; New York : T. Nelson
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