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Fuller goes on to tell us that "the sovereign power of genuine saffron is plainly proved by the antipathy of the crocodile thereto; for the crocodile's tears are never true save when he is forced where saffron groweth, whence he hath his name of croco-deilos, or the saffron-fearer, knowing himself to be all poison, and it all antidote."
"Surely you must be mistaken," I cried. "No: the first of those monsters has a porpoise's snout, a lizard's head, a crocodile's teeth; and hence our mistake. "And the other?" Hans had spoken truly. Two monsters only were creating all this commotion; and before my eyes are two reptiles of the primitive world.
In a moment more he was seen close-squatted along the crocodile's body, and with his teeth tearing fiercely at the root of its tail.
Close to the tree, and reaching nearly to the same height, is a figure with a crocodile's head wearing a crown, and with drapery in parallel lines, like the wings of the creatures in the Assyrian bas-reliefs. Indeed this may very likely be a conventional representation of the robes of feather-work so characteristic of Mexico.
One of the Egyptian deities Anubis is described as having the form and body of a man, but with a dog's head. These were types of sagacity and fidelity. This at the crocodile's resentment quakes, While that adores the ibis, gorged with snakes!
In a moment more he was seen close-squatted along the crocodile's body, and with his teeth tearing fiercely at the root of its tail.
Many, probably all, Klemantans put up wooden images of the crocodile before their houses, and many of them carve the prow of their war-canoes into the form of a crocodile's head with gaping jaw. Some of the Muruts make an effigy of the crocodile from clay for use on the celebration of a successful expedition. The Punans
If he had tried this with an alligator he would have gone overboard, pronto, but when a crocodile's jaws are tied he is gentler than most lambs. As soon as Dick had his new pets safely on the Irene he examined them carefully and then shouted to Ned: "This is my old crocodile, the very one we turned loose when we were here before. I'd know him in a thousand.
"This dwarf is a god in truth," cried one of the captains, "for no man could have wrought such a deed." "Forward," said Leonard, "we have no time to lose." Now they were by the crocodile's bed and among the broken bones of his victims. "The bag, Otter, where is the bag?" asked Leonard.
In those latitudes, and in those years, any ship was pretty sure to be Spanish: sixty years later the odds were in favor of its being an English buccaneer; which would have given a new direction to Kate's energy. Kate continued to make signals with a handkerchief whiter than the crocodile's of Ann. Dom. 1592, else it would hardly have been noticed.
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