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 The fleh of the guana is excellent eating, and is cooked in the ame manner as turtle, to which it is by many preferred; their eggs are alo reckoned a great dainty. They are caught by a very curious method: by whitling, which lulls them aleep, when with a trong vine, or firing, fatened at the end of a long tick in a lip knot, which is pulled gently over its head; and when a udden jirk is given with the tick the animal is ecured. They are very harmles, hy, and difficult to come near; and a peron bit by them, or wounded with their tails, is under no apprehenions of danger from either.

The frogs, called by the French "Crapaux," are very numerous in Dominica, and are an article of food to both the French and Englih, many of whom prefer the crapaux to chickens. They make fricaees, and oup of them, and the latter is recommended to ick people, efpecially in conumptive caes. The