text:  Whether this "wholesale dealer in unsound zoology " as Mr Waterton calls him ever can have seen a cayman except at a safe distance appears somewhat dubious; and his story of this reptile hiding its prey in a hole till semi-putrid though it would convey a high idea of the respect entertained by his brother caymans for the rights of property must be incredible to any one who has ever inspected the jaws of the animals which (as Mr Waterton observes) "are completely formed for snatch and swallow