Those that I was able to bring back with me will be found here, and, among others, about twenty individuals of different dimensions, which--a difficult undertaking--I have kept alive with great pains.

At all events, they are intact and perfect, and particularly the three largest.

These seem to me, of their kind, truly remarkable, and those in which the divinity of the day might well incarnate himself .-- Authentic and rather well kept cookbooks inform us about the cost of the cult: We can more or less estimate how much the sacred crocodiles consumed in ten years; we know their bills of daily fare, their favorite morsels.

Naturally, the god selected the fattest victims, but his voracity was so great that he likewise bolted down, and blindly, the lean ones, and in much greater number than the fattest.
Moreover, by virtue of his instincts, and an unfailing effect of the situation, he ate his equals once or twice a year, except when they succeeded in eating him .-- This cult certainly is instructive, at least to historians and men of pure science.

If any believers in it still remain I do not aim to convert them; one cannot argue with a devotee on matters of faith.