Ad00341 05 014a/eng
Die Art wie die Negern in Amerika die Abgottschlange abziehen
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Misc. Subj. LXXIV. Vol. VI. No. 12., THE MANNER, IN WHICH THE NEGROS IN AMERICA STRIP THE BUFFALO SNAKE (BOA CONSTRICTOR.), VV e know already by the III. Vol. No. 85. fhots. David faften'd the knot of a cord of our Gallery, that the Buffalo - Snake around the neck of the beaft, which he caus(Boa conftrictor) is a terrible creature, which ed to be drawn up by fome other Negros. attains to a length of 30 or 40 feet. This Then he himfelf climb'd up along the fnake, Serpent is aifo met with in America in Su- cut up the belly and ftripd of the fkin. The rinatn, where the Natives call it Aboma. copious fat, which is faid tobe whole-fome The Englifhoian Stcdman, who pafs'd feve- for bruifes, was carefully gather'd; the flefh ral years in the military Service of the was drefs'd and eat by the Negros with much Dutch in Surinam. kill'd with his Negro appetite. David, fuch a Serpent by leverai mufket
