We were permitted to climb up on the edge of a rock and examine a nest of eggs.

There were five in the nest, each of which was at least two feet in length and fifteen inches in diameter.
After we had been in the city of Hectea about a week, Professor Galdea took us to an inlet, where we saw thousands of tortoises along the sandy shore.

I hesitate to state the size of these great creatures.

They were from twenty-five to thirty feet in length, from fifteen to twenty feet in width and fully seven feet in height.

When one of them projected its head it had the appearance of some hideous sea monster.
The strange conditions "within" are favorable not only for vast meadows of luxuriant grasses, forests of giant trees, and all manner of vegetable life, but wonderful animal life as well.
One day we saw a great herd of elephants.