minhocao

Updated: May 10, 2025

"What, sir!" replied Minha, with a pleasant seriousness, "you do not know, among other fables, that an enormous reptile called the 'minhocao, sometimes visits the Amazon, and that the waters of the river rise or fall according as this serpent plunges in or quits them, so gigantic is he?" "But have you ever seen this phenomenal minhocao?" "Alas, no!" replied Lina. "What a pity!"

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon