At the period at which I first occupied my habitation and began to colonize the village of Jala-Jala, caymans abounded upon that side of the lake.
When the colony of Jala-Jala had been a few years founded, the caymansdisappeared from its neighborhood.
On reaching home, I found my friends uneasy on my account; for, not having heard from me, they feared I had fallen victim to the caymans or the pirates.
The accidents occasioned by thesecaymans are frequent and terrible, and I have seen more than one Indian fall victims to them.
The natives say they are the friends of man, and defend him from caymanswhen he happens to be in the river.
One thing is certain and that is that caymans and crocodiles both quickly make their escape when the porpoise appears.
As the breeze freshened in the direction of north-east we sought to avoid the group of the Caymans but the current drove us towards those islands.
I have since found that Dampier also remarked an absence of smell in the crocodile of Cuba where the caymans spread a very strong smell of musk.
Our guides conjectured that the animal's legs had been seized by the caymans which are very numerous in those parts.
The abundance of these animals led Columbus to give the whole group of the Caymans the name of Penascales de las Tortugas (rocks of the turtles.
In that island Dampier was struck with the great difference between the caymans and the American crocodiles.
By carelessness, or perhaps because of Fenn only having one hand, the Morning Star was run on to a reef in the Grand Caymans and lost.
Master of Captain Fenn's ship, the Morning Star, wrecked on the Grand Caymans in August, 1722.
Go to the Rio Negro, and there you will see caymans by the score.
It is on these huge beaches that the caymans are born, live, and die, not without affording extraordinary examples of longevity.
In these waters the capybaras and small caymans paid no attention to one another, swimming and resting in close proximity.
Undoubtedly the caymans were subsisting largely on these piranhas.
The huge caymans and crocodiles of the Amazon are far more dangerous, and the colonel knew of repeated instances where men, women and children had become their victims.
It was tenanted by the small caymans and by capybaras-- the largest known rodent, a huge aquatic guinea-pig, the size of a small sheep.
More than once in the drier parts of the marsh we met small caymans making their way from one pool to another.
Caymans were common, and differed from the crocodiles we had seen in Africa in two points: they were not alarmed by the report of a rifle when fired at, and they lay with the head raised instead of stretched along the sand.
But the tables were readily turned if any caymans were injured.
Here on the Paraguay the natives hold them in much respect, whereas the caymans are not feared at all.
The Paraguayan caymansare not ordinarily dangerous to man; but they do sometimes become man-eaters and should be destroyed whenever the opportunity offers.
We saw caymansand capybaras sitting socially near one another on the sandbanks.
After touching at the Grand Caymans for turtle, we reached the Bay of Mexico, where, and off the Havannah, we cruised for some weeks without taking anything.
We touched at the Caymans for turtle, and were cheated as usual.
These caymans have a strong resemblance to the crocodiles of the river Nile.
No caymanswere near; having attracted them by his vocalization he had left them in the lurch, and was content.
Once or twice in the darkness the vessel ran aground, and the fear of lurking caymans made them careful how they moved to get her off.
Meanwhile thecaymans also had turned upstream, and swam after the jaguar, like an idle crowd following at the heels of a street singer.
They were in fact the snouts of alligators, or caymans as they are known in Venezuela.
Near the shallow and marshy spots, caymans and alligators wandered about awkwardly.
It was a large one, as Leon had said, speckled, and on its back grew the green moss which is to the caymans what gray hairs are to men.
At the period at which I first occupied my habitation, and began to colonise the village of Jala-Jala, caymans abounded on that side of the lake.
Suddenly, three or four caymans which lay in waiting under the water, threw themselves upon him; horse and rider disappeared, and for some minutes afterwards the water was tinged with blood.
Do you remember that low island off the east shore of the Niger, where the negro fellows live in log huts, threshing the water all day to keep the caymans from the rice-grounds?
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