He adds, "The Indians often find enormous boas, which they call Uji, or water serpents, in the same lethargic state.

To reanimate them, they must be irritated or wetted with water." I will only mention one other animal, a zoophyte (I believe Virgularia Patagonica), a kind of sea-pen.

It consists of a thin, straight, fleshy stem, with alternate rows of polypi on each side, and surrounding an elastic stony axis, varying in length from eight inches to two feet.

The stem at one extremity is truncate, but at the other is terminated by a vermiform fleshy appendage.

The stony axis which gives strength to the stem may be traced at this extremity into a mere vessel filled with granular matter.