Journal of Voyages

Taking

fire, when it peels off. The second is called loggerhead turtle, having a shell much resembling the hawk-bill, but not worth anything for manufacturing. The third is the green turtle, whose flesh is very delicious, and so well known that I consider any description unnecessary. The Indians take them by what they call striking, havin

ive them a turtle color, and then attached to the upper side of the net, where they float on the surface of the water as buoys, while the bottom is anchored with stones. The turtle resort to

ound, say one quarter or half a mile; on which he walks backwards and forwards like a sentry on guard during the night, watching the movements of his game; and when the turtles crawl up

a hole in the sand about two feet deep, lays forty eggs, and returns to the sea again the same night. About fifteen nights after, the ident

Indians very carefully paddle their canoes to them, and by throwing their small spears into them, capture them in the same manner they do the turtle. The beef when cut up is twelv

riety of good fish; the larger o

lavor. I never saw but one young one of that species, and cannot give a very good descript

A few tame ones are kept about the houses, which fly into the shade-trees near the premises, a

d. The guana, resembles the common lizard in shape and color, and is from two

kill a beef he shoots one of his own mark. They domesticate but few horses, having scarcely any roads, the country being cut up with lakes, rivers, and creeks, without bridges. The principal travel i

performed by the Indian women, is breaking cocoa-nuts for the hogs, and cracking some for the dogs, then cutting up fine for the poultry. They grate up a large quantity with tin gr

t or navel on their backs. When they are shot the Indians immediately cut out the tit to prevent its s

ssauder, sweet potatoes or eddies, and many other vegetables; but the natives are too indolent to cul

orest where he finds a herd of cattle belonging to the neighborhood; he shoots a good fat bullock and calls on the neighbors to assist him to dress it and convey it home, where he makes a

to pay a fine of four backs of tortoise-shell, worth six dollars each, amounting to twenty-four do

a cause of this kind, both parties appeared well

t, and he neglects to pay me, and I find another Indian belonging to the same town, having tortoise-shell or other produce

, and a dinner-pot for cooking, and they commence as house keepers. After living together for some years as man and wife, the husband receives a present of a female child from its parents, which he carries home, and calls it his young wife, the first wife taking the same care of it she would of her own children until it becomes of proper age, when the husband builds a new house for the

e water knee depth, washes herself and infant, and the next day slings the child o

f Musquitto laws and c

ds from the Atlantic into the Lakes Nicaragua and Leon, has so much engaged the attention of the public latterly, m

nd a small river, and proceeded to the head of it, which brought them so near the head of another river which led into the Pacific,