Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
"With these eyes," he returned, indicating the orbs in question by pointing at them with the tube of the mate-cup he held in his hand. "This was the only occasion on which I have actually seen the lampalagua take its prey, but its manner of doing it is well known to everyone from hearsay. You see, it draws an animal towards it by means of its power of suction.
"The manner in which the lampalagua captures its prey is very curious," said one of the company, named Rivarola, a stout man with an immense, fierce-looking black beard and moustache, but who was very mild-eyed and had a gentle, cooing voice. We had all heard of the lampalagua, a species of boa found in these countries, with a very thick body and extremely sluggish in its motions.
It is well known that the lampalagua is the strongest of all God's creatures, and that if a man, stripped to the skin, engages one, and conquers it by sheer muscular strength, the serpent's power goes into him, after which he is invincible." I laughed at this fable, and was severely rebuked for my levity. "I will tell you the strangest thing that ever befell me," said Blas Aria.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking