zanoli

-- "The zanoli gives a ball; the _maboya_ enters unasked."

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Rarely is there such absolute stillness among them: on the calmest days there are usually rustlings audible, thin cracklings, faint creepings: sounds that betray the passing of some little animal or reptile -- a rat or a wa manicou, or a zanoli or couresse, -- more often, however, no harmless lizard or snake, but the deadly _fer-de-lance_.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877