Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, & 1824 / [Charles Waterton] ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, & 1824 / [Charles Waterton] ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it JOURNE WANDERINGS IN the leopard, are found here; and two of their — diminutives, named tiger cats. ‘The tapir, the lobba, and deer, afford excellent food, and chiefly frequent the swamps and low ground, near the sides of the river and creeks. In stating that four-footed animals are scarce, the peccari must be excepted. Three or four hundred of them herd together, and traverse the wilds in all directions in quest of roots and fallen seeds. The Indians mostly shoot them with poi- soned arrows. When wounded, they run about one hundred and fifty paces; they then drop, and make wholesome food. : The red monkey, erroneously called the baboon, is heard oftener than it is seen; while the common. brown monkey, the bisa, and sacawinki, rove from tree to tree, and amuse the stranger as ek journeys on. A species of the polecat, and another of the fox, are destructive to the Indian’s poultry; while the opossum, the guana, and salempenta, afford him a delicious morsel. The small ant-bear, and the large one, remark~- able for his long, broad, bushy tail, are sometimes seen on the tops of the wood ants’ nests; the armadillas bore in the sand hills, like rabbits in a warren; and the porcupine is now and then discovered in the trees over your head. : This, too, is the native.country of the sloth.