jacaré

This was the first sign of wild animal life we saw, the "jacaré" or alligator.

Certainly there was something peculiar both in the appearance and movements of the jacaré.

The Indian, according to his own account, was acquainted with live or six different kinds of jacaré.

It was four feet long when full grown, and he knew of others, as the jacaré-curúa, that never grew above two.

That jacaré is a man-eater, strayed from some of the villages, perhaps Coary, that we have lately left.