 | 1847 - 900 sider
...says "this animal is very ferocious and dangerous, even to man." So says the new London Encyclopœdia, which gives a very dramatic story about an alligator,...occupied in devouring the remnants of their horrid mea). He looked around for a weapon, but finding none, and aware that he coold do nothing, he raised... | |
 | 1850 - 216 sider
...five young children were put in possession of their new home, and slept soundly after a long march. Towards daybreak, the husband and father was awakened by a faint cry ; and, looking up, beheld the relics of three of his children scattered over the floor, and an enormous crocodile, with several... | |
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... alligator, that invaded a South American city, and in the presence of the governor, carried off, in his capacious jaws, a living man ! Mrs. Trollope's story, which follows, has become classical, and is quoted as authority. The scene is laid in Louisiana,... 