MOSQUITO SHOnE.


specimen of the-kind. Certainly the
power of fascination, as it is contended,
or a very extraordinary share of stratagtn,
must be the natural property of some spe-
cies of the snake; or why animals, at
least as wary, and certainly possessed of
much superior powers of swiftness, are
thus surprised, must occasion some as-
tonishment.
 Thursday, 31st.-Yesterday completed
our eighth day since we departed from
the mouth of Caratasca Lagoon. With
a tolerably fair wind, it is little more than
a day's sail from the place we were now
at. And what I had feared would be the
consequence of so tedious a voyage began
now to present itself, a scarcity of provi-
sions. But an excursion of some of the
Indians, my fellow voyagers, into the woods
was attended this forenoon with particu-
larly gobd fortune. They returned with
no less than five wild hogs. Not larger
or fatter ever ranged thb Lucanian forests."


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