I never saw a neater job.

Moreover, these industrious little creatures had devoured the beast itself.
Nothing remained of it except the clean, white bones lying in the exact position in which we had left the carcase.

Atom by atom that marching myriad army had eaten all and departed on its way into the depths of the forest, leaving this sign of their passage.
How I wished that we could carry off the huge skeleton to add to my collection of trophies, but this was impossible.

As Brother John said, any museum would have been glad to purchase it for hundreds of pounds, for I do not suppose that its like exists in the world.

But it was too heavy; all I could do was to impress its peculiarities upon my mind by a close study of the mighty bones.