Word: tapir
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...trekking-menage sat down to dinner. Such succulent meats! What were they? Before the white men lay crackly tidbits of wild tapir (pig). The coppery Indian guides gorged on chunks of monkey carcasses, on the crisped torsos of giant lizards...
Crackly tidbits of wild tapir...
Incidentally, immigration certificates were not ready in time for this July 1; so absolutely no immigrants came. The Cleveland of the United American Line brought the nearest thing of the kind, "several thousand birds, a tapir, a blue-faced mandrill, other monkeys, some squirrels and three makis . . . funny-looking animals which are neither raccoons nor monkeys and which make sounds like a turkey...
...human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature of the human remains and the fact that they are found only in one layer, prove that the Indians lived in the cave, and that they had no predecessors in these regions...
...followed by some seventy pages of fiction, tales of shooting and fishing, and other sporting articles. "Canoeing on the Merrimac" by I. N. Drake is a bright and entertaining account of a two weeks canoe trip. Allen Chamberlain gives us an account of a novel expedition in "Hunting a Tapir." The story of the hunt is not exciting, but it is well written and is pleasant reading. A couple of bicycling articles are "A Wheel to San Gabriel at Easter" by Jess and "Through Erin A-Wheel" by Grace E. Denison. The latter is the better...