Enumeration of the Reptiles in the Four Orders, eaten as Food, 169.
Land Tortoises and their Eggs, 170. Terrapin or Box Tortoise--Cruel
mode of killing them, 171. Tenacity of Life--Fluviatile Tortoises--The
Hiccatee of Honduras, 172. Shooting a Turtle--Abundance of large
Land Tortoises in the Gallipagos Islands--Very generally eaten
in the Pacific, Australia, South America, and Europe--Tortoise
oil, 174. Salted Turtle--Chasing the Turtle--Horrible process of
removing the Shell, 175. Dampier’s Description of Land Tortoises
in the West Indies in 1684--First Introduction of Turtle to
England--Statistics of Consumption--Noted City Houses for Turtle
Soup, 176. Turtling in the Grand Caymans, West Indies, 177. Mock
Turtle and Real Turtle--Ascension the Head Quarters for keeping
Turtle, 178. Adventures of Old ‘Nelson’--Turtle should be sent
home in a Sealed Cask--Jaguars of South America fond of Turtle
and their Eggs--A Brazil Native will eat 20 or 30 Turtle Eggs at
a meal, 180. Description of the Eggs--Hawk’s-bill Turtle eaten,
but sometimes unwholesome--Collecting Turtle Eggs on the Orinoco,
by the Indians--Preparation of an Oil called ‘Mantega’ from
them--Gives Employment to several thousand Persons, 181. Quantity
made and Value--Not very pure--Uses of Turtle Oil for Culinary and
Illuminating Purposes, 182. The Iguana--Description of it--Repulsive
Appearance--Very Delicate Eating, 183. Mode of cooking it--First
Repugnance of the Early Spaniards to it, as related by Peter Martyn,
184. Mode of Catching the Reptile by Natives, 185. Hunted by Dogs
in the Bahamas Islands--Met with and esteemed in Australia, 186.
Aboriginal Appreciation of it--Eaten by Natives of Ceylon, 187. Eggs
of this Lizard an esteemed Delicacy--Should be introduced to our
Tables--All kinds of Lizards eaten by the Blacks of Australia, 188.
Lizard Family obnoxious to Poisons--Lizards brought to the Rio Janeiro
market--Hatching a Crocodile by a Fancy Poultry Breeder, 190. Eggs of
the Alligator eaten--Effect of Imagination on the Stomach, at a Dinner
given by Dr. Buckland, 191. Australian Crocodile eats like Veal, 192.
Origin of the Australian ‘Bunyip’ Fiction--Flesh of the Crocodile
musky, 193. Various Opinions of Alligator Meat, 194. An Alligator
Hunt in South America, 195. Eggs and Skin of the Alligator eaten--Oil
prepared from the Fat, 196. Lizards, Serpents, and Snakes, 197.
Swallowing Live Lizards supposed to cure the Cancer--Boa-constrictor
eaten, 198. Fried Rattlesnake or ‘Musical Jack,’ 199. Roasted Snakes
in Australia, 202. Extending use of Frogs for Food in Europe, America,
and the East--Toads frequently sold for frogs, 204. Mode of skinning
and preparing them--Eaten boiled in Brazil, without any Preparation,
206.