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Updated: May 14, 2025
While I was in this extraordinary situation standing on the back of an enormous alligator, and tugging at my tomahawk, embedded in its head Yamba came rushing up the path, carrying one of the paddles, which, without a moment's hesitation, she thrust down the alligator's throat as he turned to snap at her. She immediately let go her hold and retreated.
"Don't see why a crack with a stick should not do as well as an alligator's tail," I said to myself. That blow was not delivered, for before I could gather myself up and bring my muscles to bear, the water flashed as a little wave rose, and the fish was far out of reach.
And the alligator thought it was Uncle Wiggily falling into his jaws, and he shut them quickly like a steel trap and chewed on that bottle of hot toothache drops before he knew what it was. Well, you can just imagine what happened. The medicine was as hot as pepper and mustard and vinegar and cloves and horse radish all made into one! My! how it did burn that alligator's mouth. "Oh my! I'm shot!
One sweep of his clasp-knife cut all the fastenings the next moment he grasped the toe in both hands, and, swaying the heavy butt of the limb in the air, brought it down with all his force on the skull of the alligator. It rang like the sound of a blow on an empty cask. Again the limb was swayed aloft, and descended with extraordinary violence on the extreme point of the alligator's snout.
This latter reason I look upon as very absurd, and worthy only of the fabulous Buffon. For my part, I believe that the rubbish usually found in the alligator's stomach is collected there by accident swallowed, from time to time, by mistake, or along with his prey; for his organs of taste are far from being delicate, and he will devour anything that is flung into the water, even a glass bottle.
It seems almost incredible that a man could overtake and master the large cayman in his own element; but such was the case in this instance, for the animal was reached and forced to release his booty by the man's thrusting his thumb into his eye. The lad showed us the marks of the alligator's teeth on his thigh.
I drew out my knife, cut a steak from the alligator's tail, and ate it not the one I had first killed, but a second; the other was now putrid, rapidly decomposing under the hot sun: its odour filled the islet. "The stench had grown intolerable. There was not a breath of air stirring, otherwise I might have shunned it by keeping to windward.
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