Fully forty or fifty feet was on each side of the track, and though the weight which it dragged had thinned it, it was as thick round as a man's body.

I suppose you know that when you are after tiger, it is a point of honour not to shoot at anything else, as life may depend on it.

I could easily have spined this monster, but I felt that I must not--so, with regret, I had to let it go.' "Just imagine such a monster anywhere in this country, and at once we could get a sort of idea of the 'worms,' which possibly did frequent the great morasses which spread round the mouths of many of the great European rivers." "I haven't the least doubt, sir, that there may have been such monsters as you have spoken of still existing at a much later period than is generally accepted," replied Adam.

"Also, if there were such things, that this was the very place for them.

I have tried to think over the matter since you pointed out the configuration of the ground.