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Both ends were tightly bound round with a cord of silk grass; the butt being further secured by a nut cut horizontally through the middle, with a hole in the end forming a ring, which, should it strike the ground, would prevent it from splitting. About two feet from the mouth-end he fastened a couple of the teeth of the agouti to serve as sights.
The smaller agouti, rather less than a rabbit, generally inhabits forest districts; and as it is there a nocturnal animal, it spends the chief part of the day in its hiding-place usually the cleft of a rock or the hollow of a decaying tree twenty or thirty creatures congregating together.
The rivers are full of fish which can readily be caught, and, in Brazil, the tapir, capybara, paca, agouti, two or three varieties of deer, and two varieties of wild pig can occasionally be shot; and most of the monkeys are used for food. Turtles and turtle eggs can be had in season and a great variety of birds, some of them delicious in flavor and heavy in meat.
Yet the Gaucho in the Pampas, for months together, touches nothing but beef. But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalised nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the Agouti. Dr. It is, perhaps, from their meat regimen that the Gauchos, like other carnivorous animals, can abstain long from food.
An agouti and a cabiai, not to mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after this fortunate excursion.
All were astonished to see this large yellow animal standing; Francis thought it was a wolf; Jack said it was only a dead dog, and Ernest, in a pompous tone, pronounced it to be a golden fox. Fritz laughed at the learned professor, who knew the agouti immediately, and now called a jackal a golden fox! "I judged by the peculiar characteristics," said Ernest, examining it carefully.
Its congener, the agouti, affects the arid sterile plains of Patagonia, while the biscacha is most met with on the fertile pampas further north; more especially along the borders of those far-famed thickets of tall thistles forests they might almost be called upon the roots of which it is said to feed.
The careless horseman on the Pampas soon becomes disagreeably acquainted with the existence of a little rodent the bizcacha into whose closely-set burrows should his horse step, he will to a certainty find himself pitched over his steed's head. It closely resembles a rabbit, but with larger gnawing teeth and a longer tail. It has only three toes behind, like the agouti.
We were almost as hungry as they were, and were watching anxiously till the soup began to cool; when we perceived that the dogs were tearing and gnawing Fritz's agouti. The boys all cried out; Fritz was in a fury, took his gun, struck the dogs, called them names, threw stones at them, and would have killed them if I had not held him. He had actually bent his gun with striking them.
He first tore it apart, and then tasted it; and then I believe that the whole breakfast of which they partook the agouti soup, the partridge killed by Godfrey, and the shoulder of mutton with camas and yamph roots would hardly have sufficed to calm the hunger which devoured him. "The poor fellow has got a good appetite!" said Godfrey.
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