Some things may be nicer than others, but hardly anything is poisonous.

I have eaten snakes, over and over again, and very good they are.

I have been keeping a lookout for them, ever since we started this morning." When they reached the rock, the lizards all darted off to their cracks and crevices; but Ned and Tom lay down, with their bows bent and arrows in place, and waited quietly.

Ere long the lizards popped up their heads again, and began to move about, and the lads now let fly their arrows.

Sometimes they hit, sometimes missed, and each shot was followed by the disappearance of the lizards; but with patience they found, by the end of an hour, that they had shot a dozen, which was sufficient for an ample meal for them.
"How will you cook them, Ned ?" "Skin them as if they were eels, and then roast them on a stick." "I am more thirsty than hungry," Tom said.
"Yes, and from the look of the country, water must be scarce.
However, as long as we can shoot lizards and birds, we can drink their blood." The fire was soon lighted, and the lizards cooked.