We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid ofcaymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.
With a dull, heavy splash an occasionalcayman plunged in from the bank.
1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor,Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest[1], page326:
Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa forcaymans. One sings this so he won't be eaten by thecaymans.
2002, Harry S. Pariser,Explore Puerto Rico[2], page157:
Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.
