[171] Dasyprocta agouti.
[172] I captured some and brought them away as pets.
[173] Spruce, i. p. 182.
[174] Dicotypes tajacu is the only one I observed in these parts, but D. labiatus is common in the bush. The peccary is called kairooni by the Arawak; mero and emo by the Witoto according to the species; mene by the Boro; and whinga by the Macusi.
[175] See Wood’s Natural History, “Mammals.”
[176] Oakenfull, p. 30.
[177] Turning turtles is prohibited by law in Brazil, but no law reaches these wilds.
[178] The Indians of British Guiana who eat the turtles’ and iguana eggs, also “will not touch the egg of a fowl” (im Thurn, p. 18).
[179] They do not, however, object to their food being decidedly “high” (cf. Simson, p 115).
[180] In this they share the tastes of the Liberian women (cf. Johnston, Liberia, ii. 954).