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It would be no boy's play to "go a nutting" in a wood of juvia-trees. But how did the monkeys and birds get at the nuts? Neither of these could break open the outer shell. This is full half an inch thick, and so hard that it can scarcely be cut with a saw. How could either monkeys or birds open it? that was the question put to Guapo. "Watch them," said Guapo.
A cry was heard that rose far above all the other noises a cry more terrible than the screams of the parrots, or the shrieks of the howling monkeys it was the cry of the jaguar! It came from a piece of wood close to the juvia-trees, and the branches were heard to crackle as the dreaded utterer advanced. In a moment the ground was cleared of every creature.
It would be no boy's play to "go a nutting" in a wood of juvia-trees. But how did the monkeys and birds get at the nuts? Neither of these could break open the outer shell. This is full half an inch thick, and so hard that it can scarcely be cut with a saw. How could either monkeys or birds open it? that was the question put to Guapo. "Watch them," said Guapo.
We found in the village a few juvia-trees which furnish the triangular nuts called in Europe the almonds of the Amazon, or Brazil-nuts. We have made it known by the name of Bertholletia excelsa. The trees attain after eight years' growth the height of thirty feet.
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