I saw man-eating piranhas with my own eyes for the first time in my life!
Piranhas are never found at this height, and we saw no traces of any other dangerous fish or reptiles when we were here last year.
A minute later the water was milky from the flowing juice, and before long was filled with floating, motionless piranhas stupefied by the poisonous sap.
The piranhaswere bad here, and no one could bathe.
In a lagoon two of the dogs had the tips of their tails bitten off by piranhas as they swam, and the ranch hands told us that in this lagoon one of their hounds had been torn to pieces and completely devoured by the ravenous fish.
When a capybara was shot and sank in the water, the piranhas at once attacked it, and had eaten half the carcass ten minutes later.
We saw men frequently bathing unmolested; but there are places where this is never safe, and in any place if a school of the fish appear swimmers are in danger; and a wounded man or beast is in deadly peril if piranhas are in the neighborhood.
But much more extraordinary was the fact that when a cayman about five feet long was wounded the piranhas attacked and tore it, and actually drove it out on the bank to face its human foes.
Piranhas or no piranhas, we now intended to get across; and we tried to force our horses in at what seemed a likely spot.
Such accidents are rare; but they happen with sufficient frequency to justify much caution in entering water where piranhas abound.
I never witnessed an exhibition of such impotent, savage fury as was shown by the piranhas as they flapped on deck.
The alligators and piranhas and other dangerous forms won't give us a chance to even wade.
But with the alligators and piranhas and other dangerous aquatic forms it's absurd even to think of such a thing.
Piranhas and alligators are very common all through this region," he said.
The piranhas spoiled the chance of getting that specimen.
Never can tell how many alligators and piranhashave migrated here from the river.
Sometimes a larger fish approached, and then the host of Piranhas took the alarm and flashed out of sight.
Piranhas are of several kinds, many of which abound in the waters of the Tapajos.
When the new tackle was tried, however, he discovered to his disappointment that the piranhaswould no longer bite; not so much as a nibble could be felt at the end of the string.
The companions of the tapuyo were no wiser for his words, until piranhas was explained to them to mean "biting fish," for such were the unseen enemies that assailed them.
As the dead-wood scarcely stirred, or drifted only slightly, the piranhas could keep alongside, and see everything that occurred without being seen themselves.
While swimming to overtake the canoe, he was attacked by a swarm of piranhas ravenous for prey, made so perhaps by the blood of the peixe-boi left along the water.
The commotion which they had made in the water, by their plunging and kicking, had kept the piranhas at a distance, and it was only an odd one that had been able to get a tooth into them.
The Mundurucu set the fire freshly astir, and half a dozen piranhas were soon browned in the blaze and distributed among the party, who one and all endorsed the tapuyo, by pronouncing them a delicacy.
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