He ran and turned her, with some difficulty; then brought down his cart, cut off her head with a blow, and, in due course, dragged her up the slope.

She weighed two hundred pounds.

He showed Miss Rolleston the enormous shell, gave her a lecture on turtles, and especially on the four species known to South Sea navigators--the trunk turtle, the loggerhead, the green turtle, and the hawks-bill, from which last, and not from any tortoise, he assured her came the tortoise-shell of commerce.
"And now," said he, "will you not give up or suspend your reptile theory, and eat a little green turtle, the king of them all ?" "I think I must, after all that," said she; and rather relished it.
That morning he kept his word, and laid their case before her.
He said: "We are here on an island that has probably been seen and disregarded by a few whalers, but is not known to navigators nor down on any chart.

There is a wide range of vegetation, proving a delightful climate on the whole, and one particularly suited to you, whose lungs are delicate.

But then, comparing the beds of the rivers with the banks, a tremendous fall of rain is indicated.