newt-like

Updated: April 30, 2025

These places were especially disagreeable to cross; for under the gloomy shadow of the trees they would now and then catch a glimpse of huge newt-like lizards of the genus hydrosaurus almost as large as crocodiles slowly floundering out of the way, as if reluctant to leave, and half-determined to dispute the passage.

Mayne Reid - The Castaways