The fleſh of the guana is excellent eating, and is cooked in the ſame manner as turtle, to which it is by many preferred; their eggs are alſo reckoned a great dainty. They are caught by a very curious method: by whiſtling, which lulls them aſleep, when with a ſtrong vine, or firing, faſtened at the end of a long ſtick in a ſlip knot, which is pulled gently over its head; and when a ſudden jirk is given with the ſtick the animal is ſecured. They are very harmleſs, ſhy, and difficult to come near; and a perſon bit by them, or wounded with their tails, is under no apprehenſions of danger from either.
The frogs, called by the French "Crapaux," are very numerous in Dominica, and are an article of food to both the French and Engliſh, many of whom prefer the crapaux to chickens. They make fricaſſees, and ſoup of them, and the latter is recommended to ſick people, efpecially in conſumptive caſes.
