tamandoa

Updated: May 5, 2025

His gun almost burned his fingers, but faithful to his promise he kept it quiet. But yet and he cautioned his sister about this the gun would go off in spite of him, and probably register a master-stroke in sporting annals, if within range there should come a "tamandoa assa," a kind of large and very curious ant-eater.

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon