Caymans, always called jacares, swarmed; and we killed scores of the noxious creatures.

In the late afternoon we secured a more interesting creature than the jacares.

The ibis and plover did not pay any heed to the fish; but the black carrion vultures feasted on them in the mud; and in the pools that were not dry small alligators, the jacare-tinga, were feasting also.

At the first shallow ford, as horses and dogs splashed across, an alligator, the jacare-tinga, some five feet long, floated unconcernedly among the splashing hoofs and paws; evidently at night it did not fear us.

In this country they rambled through the night across the marshes and prowled along the edges of the ponds and bayous, catching the capybaras and the caymans; for these small pond caymans, the jacare-tinga, form part of their habitual food, and a big jaguar when hungry will attack and kill large caymans and crocodiles if he can get them a few yards from the water.

It was a jacare-tinga or small cayman about five feet long.

In another little pond a jacare-tinga showed no less anger when another of my companions approached.

Yet these pond jacares never actually molested even our dogs in the ponds, far less us on our horses.

Near the first of these we saw a small cayman, a jacare-tinga.

Different members of the party caught many fish, and shot a monkey and a couple of jacare-tinga birds kin to a turkey, but the size of a fowlso we again had a camp of plenty.