Note 15 — Chapter VI · APPROACHING THE ANDES
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On further inquiry, I found that several men of science who had visited these parts, and had, presumably, investigated the matter, had positively stated that the Caribe was capable of severing fishhooks with the greatest ease. Thus Mr. H. M. Myers does not hesitate to affirm that the Caribe is “able to sever ordinary hooks as if they were but slender threads,”15 and Dr. Carl Sachs declares that “even thick steel fishhooks do not withstand their teeth.”16