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Updated: June 25, 2025
The boys claimed I jumped straight upward four feet; but I think it was nearer ten. Talbot said the thing was an iguana. I should like very much to be able to describe it accurately, but my observation was somewhat confused. Beyond the evident fact that it snorted actual fire, I am not prepared to go.
We all crowded round to examine it, and as we stooped caught sight of the owner not a hundred yards ahead, engrossed in unearthing an iguana and entirely ignorant of our presence. A hasty consultation; "Catch him," said someone, Breaden I think, and off we started I first, and Godfrey near behind.
When she met him first in the studio he was painted as delicately as a barber-pole, and he stood sweating in a scene under the full blast of a battery of sick green Cooper-Hewitt lights. He looked about three days dead and loathsome as an iguana. He was in full evening dress, and Kedzie had always marveled at the snowiness of his linen. Now she saw how he got the effect.
A friend of mine was out riding one day after his cattle, and having attached one end of his lasso to the saddle, He let it trail on the ground. He noticed a large iguana lying apparently asleep in the sun, and though he rode by it very closely, it did not stir; but no sooner had he passed it, than it raised its head, and fixed its attention on the forty feet of lasso slowly trailing by.
The Indians meantime, while we were finishing breakfast, set off into the forest, and just as we were ready to start came back with another iguana. We were constantly employed in trying to teach Duppo English. Arthur was explaining to him the animals of our country, and was mentioning the cow, and describing its milk.
The boy was late in delivering them, because he had been deflected from his duty by an iguana that crossed his path and to which he immediately gave chase. But it made no hardship, for she had no letters to send.
And all have such an odor that it is wonderful, so that I am the most afflicted man in the world not to know them." They killed a serpent in one of the lakes upon this island, which Las Casas says is the Guana, or what we call the Iguana. In seeking for good water, the Spaniards found a town, from which the inhabitants were going to fly.
The French naturalist Firmin found in the stomach of an anaconda a large sloth, an iguana four feet long, and a good-sized ant-bear; all three in the same state almost as when they were swallowed a proof that they had been captured within a short time.
Venomous snakes are always greatly outnumbered by non-venomous ones in the same district; at any rate this is the case on the pampas. The greater activity of the latter counts for more in the result than the deadly weapons of the former. The large teguexin lizard of the pampas, called iguana by the country people, is a notable snake-killer.
By and by an iguana, or big lizard, came waddling and wheezing down to the water, looking for all the world like a baby alligator. 'Hi! you there! sang out the jackal; 'you mustn't drink until you have said 'Silver is his dais, plastered o'er with gold; In his ears are jewels, some prince I must behold! 'Pouf! pouf! pouf! gasped the iguana. 'Mercy on us, how dry my throat is!
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