CHAPTER XXVII.

L'Encuerado and the Parrots.--Gringalet meets a Friend.--The Cougar, or American Lion.--A Stream.--Our "Palm-tree Villa."--Turtles' Eggs.--The Tantalus.--Herons and Flamingoes. 400

A Grove of Logwood trees.--Ants at their Work.--Parasitic Insects.--The Great Ant-eater.--Spoonbills and Herons.--Lost in the Forest. 415

A nocturnal Visitor.--The Fall of a Tree.--A fearful Night.--The Monkeys.--Master Job.--All right at last. 428

We build a Raft.--The Horned Serpent.--Good-bye to "Palm-tree Villa."--Mosquitoes and Horse-flies.--The Rattlesnake.--An Ocelot. 438

The Hunters hunted.--Escape from Peccaries.--A Jaguar-hunt.--An Ibis.--The Caymans.--The Wild Bulls. 446