text: " We fear moreover that the character which general experience has assigned to these huge reptiles whether called crocodiles caymans or alligators is much more in accordance with the anecdote related by Governor Ynciarte of a man carried off into the river by one of these monsters from the alameda or public walk of Angostura than with Swainson's description of a timid creature liable to be knocked on the head by an idle boy with a hatchet the defenceless state of which excited his compassion