He is some six or eight feet long, black, with more or less bright yellow about the tail and under the stomach.

He not only faces the Fer-de-lance, who is often as big as he, but kills and eats him.

It was but last year, I think, that the population of Carenage turned out to see a fight in a tree between a Cribo and a Fer-de-lance, of about equal size, which, after a two hours' struggle, ended in the Cribo swallowing the Fer-de-lance, head foremost.

But when he had got his adversary about one-third down, the Creoles--just as so many Englishmen would have done--seeing that all the sport was over, rewarded the brave Cribo by killing both, and preserving them as a curiosity in spirits.

How the Fer-de-lance came into the Antilles is a puzzle.