He did it nobly.
With a roar that rebounded from the face of the high cliff and echoed through the valley like a peal of thunder, he sprang out and rushed at the savages in front, who scattered like chaff right and left.

But at the same instant fifty blow-pipes sent their poisoned shafts into his body, and, after a few convulsive bounds, the splendid monarch of the American forests fell dead on the ground.

The black jaguar is a somewhat rare animal, and is very seldom seen.

This one was therefore hailed as a great prize, and the skin and claws were carefully preserved.
On the afternoon of the same day the party came to a broad stream, over which they, or some other of the numerous tribes in the country, had constructed a very simple and curious bridge.

It was a single rope attached to an immense mass of rock on one side and to the stem of a large tree on the other.