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Among the people of Guiana in South America, the Camoodi is a gigantic serpent which lives deep in the jungle. Its presence might have been unknown to any outside this region, but in 1896 a hunting party came across a great fallen tree crossing their path. While they were thinking how to by-pass this obstacle, the hunters were appalled to see that the tree was actually a serpent too vast to comprehend, as it began to slither off. The scouts with the hunters told them that they had been privileged and very lucky to escape the Camoodi, protector of the jungle.