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 are caled and beautifully potted, and they have at the end of their tails a blunt-pointed, horny ubtance, which enables them to climb the trees.

The bite of thee nakes is not venomous, nor is that of any kind of them in this iland; but the tête du chien does much michief among the birds in the woods; and on the plantations they frequently devour the fowls and other poultry. They will wailow a full-grown fowl with its feathers; and everal of them have been killed there with both a large fowl and an Indian coney entire in their bowels.

A remarkable circumtance, which happened in this iland ome time ago, deerves to be noticed in this place. A negro retiring from work one day at noon, intead of going home to get his dinner, fell afleep under a hady tree; and being miing at the time the ether negroes aembied together to finih their daily