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t, with long tails, and feet like those of a rat. These animals climb up the trees; and many who have tasted them say they are very good to eat. Probably a species of capromys, an animal of the rat kind. There are not any wild beasts. There are great numbers of small snakes, and some lizards, but not many; for the Indians consider them as great a luxury as we do pheasants: they are of the same size as ours, but different in shape. In a small adjacent island, close by a harbor called Monte Christo, where we staid several days, our men saw an enormous kind of lizard, Probably an alligator. which they said was as large round as a calf, with a tail as long as a lance, which they often went out to kill; but, bulky as it was, it got into the sea, so that they could not catch it. There are, both in this and the other islands, an infinite number of birds like those in our own country. and many others such as we had never seen. No kind of domestic fowl has been seen here, with the ex