The cord of ticum
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Quando o animal, quase asfixiado pela estrangulação, já não fazia senão uma fraca resistência, o selvagem, segurando sempre a forquilha, meteu a mão debaixo da túnica e tirou uma corda de ticum que tinha enrolada à cintura em muitas voltas.
When the animal, almost asphyxiated by the strangling, now made but a feeble resistance, the savage — still gripping the fork — thrust his hand beneath his tunic and drew out a cord of ticum that he had wound many times around his waist.
When the animal, half-choked, made only feeble resistance, the savage — still gripping the fork — reached under his tunic and drew out a cord of ticum wound many times around his waist.
Peri means to take the jaguar alive. The 'corda de ticum' — a fiber cord from a native palm — is the forest's own rope, and the shift from killing to binding recasts the whole feat as capture, not slaughter.
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