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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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replied the Senhor. But Graciliano is really in earnest,and I think correct in his statement. The jaguar will lie close to thewater on some overhanging branch, and gently lash the surface withhis tail. . The splash sounds like the fall of ripe fruit, and a fish fre-quently rises and is caught by the jaguars sharp claws. What a cunning creature he must be, said Delight. I w^onderif Philomena cannot tell us some Indian stories about him. Sheentertained us for a long time last evening with tales that were verymuch like Uncle Remuss stories of Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit. Philomena must be induced to favor us, Victoria said, for myknowledge of jaguar literature is remarkably limited, it is entirely con-lined in fact to the touching ballad of the Old Woman of Nicaragua. What is that? the Senhor asked. Have you never heard ? — There was an old woman of NicaraguaWhose back hair was clawed off by a jaguar.The old woman said, Ah !The jaguar said, Bah !What a false, artificial old hag )ou are !
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.-/ JAGUAR HUXT. 131 All hiiiuhcti, and Philomcna, uii being questioned, replied that theIndians called the jaguar the son of Jurupary, — child oT the devil,lie was very fierce and strong, but the cotia sometimes outwittedhim. ^ Mr. Herbert Smith brought back a number of those SouthAmerican Iblk-lore stories, said the Professor. I remember hereports the Indian explanation of how the tortoise came by his shell. Let Philomena tell it, Delight begged. The tortoise at tirst had no shell, said Philomena, but a jaguarbit into its back so tiercely that its teeth locked together, and itcould not get them apart. Then the jaguar died and the tortoiserunning through the forest tore its head from its body. Finallynothing remained but the skull bleached by the weather, and thetortoise wears the jaguars skull on its back to this day. That is very interesting, said Victoria, please tell us somemore. ■ The cotia, said Philomena, is a ver)- wnse and also a verymischievous little animal. One day th

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