Of these we still saw some remains.

There, with a fire of brushwood, they melt in pots of clay the fat of the young birds just killed.

This fat is known by the name of butter or oil (manteca or aceite) of the Guacharo.

It is half liquid, transparent without smell, and so pure that it may be kept above a year without becoming rancid.

At the convent of Caripe no other oil is used in the kitchen of the monks but that of the cavern; and we never observed that it gave the aliments a disagreeable taste or smell.
'Young Guacharos have been sent to the port or Cumana, and lived there several days without taking any nourishment, the seeds offered to them not suiting their taste.