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Dumont d'Urville Rear-Admiral Laplace: Desertion of Sailors from his Ship I recover them for him Origin of the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands Their General Disposition Hospitality and Respect for Old Age Tagal Marriage Ceremony Indian Legal Eloquence Explanation of the Matrimonial Speeches The Caymans, or Alligators Instances of their Ferocity Imprudence and Death of my Shepherd Method of entrapping the Monster which had devoured him We Attack and eventually Capture it Its Dimensions We Dissect and Examine the Contents of its Stomach Boa-Constrictors Their large size Attack of a Boa-Constrictor on a Wild Boar We Kill and Skin it Unsuccessful Attempt to capture a Boa-Constrictor alive A Man Devoured Dangerous Venomous Reptiles.
Zoologists have, however, ascertained that there are in America caymans or alligators with obtuse snouts, and legs not indented, and crocodiles with pointed snouts and indented legs; and in the old continent, both crocodiles and gaviales.
The Paraguayan caymans are not ordinarily dangerous to man; but they do sometimes become man-eaters and should be destroyed whenever the opportunity offers. The huge caymans and crocodiles of the Amazon are far more dangerous, and the colonel knew of repeated instances where men, women and children had become their victims.
The negroes and Indians were all slaves; the former seized on the coasts of Havana and Cartagena, the latter brought over from Yucatan. The latter, when provisions ran low, were marooned on one of the Caymans, north-west of Jamaica, where they would have perished had not a Dutch ship found and rescued them.
Women were washing clothes, and their naked children bathing, on the shore; we were told that caymans and piranhas rarely ventured near a place where so much was going on, and that accidents generally occurred in ponds or lonely stretches of the river.
Saturday, December 13th. ... Nothing in sight, and I intend to see nothing unless it be a homeward-bound Californian steamer at present, as it is important I should make the run I contemplate without being traced. I should have much liked to touch at the Caymans for fruit and vegetables for the crew, but forbear on this account. Monday, December 15th.
As the breeze freshened in the direction of north-east we sought to avoid the group of the Caymans but the current drove us towards those islands. Sailing to south 1/4 south-east, we gradually lost sight of the palm-covered shore, the hills rising above the town of Trinidad and the lofty mountains of the island of Cuba.
Here on the Paraguay the natives hold them in much respect, whereas the caymans are not feared at all. The only redeeming feature about them is that they are themselves fairly good to eat, although with too many bones.
Sailing across the Caribbean Sea, he at length sighted two small islands to the north-west of Hispaniola, which he called the Tortugas, from the quantity of turtles seen about them, though now known as the Caymans. Passing west of these, he found himself among the islands to the south of Cuba which he had called the Queen's Gardens. Here he cast anchor.
In this country they rambled through the night across the marshes and prowled along the edges of the ponds and bayous, catching the capybaras and the caymans; for these small pond caymans, the jacare-tinga, form part of their habitual food, and a big jaguar when hungry will attack and kill large caymans and crocodiles if he can get them a few yards from the water.
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