Note 141 — Chapter XV

I have been much blamed by one of my friends for not having eaten of the flesh of the jacarè; and indeed I felt a little ashamed of my squeamishness, when I was shown by the same friend, a passage in a French writer, whose name I forget, in which he speaks favourably of this flesh. However, if the advocate for experimental eating had seen an alligator cut into slices, he would, I think, have turned from the sight as quickly as I did. The Indians eat these creatures, but the negroes will not, no not even the gabam negroes who are said to be cannibals.