. Le livre d'un naturaliste [microform]. Sciences naturelles ; l'histoire naturelle ; le comportement animal, animaux. Le SERPENT DANS LA LITTÉRATURE 189 Ouest ; et les anacondas de constriction, avec la plus grande de toutes, la Camudi géant, " mère des eaux " ; aussi le serpent taureau et le serpent noir, brillant et qu'arlequin, mortel le Coral Snake. Ces tous sont dans le Nouveau Monde, et que je ne puis passer à l'ancien en quête de bleu de la mer- les serpents et merveilleux arbre viridescent-serpents, et de nombreux lieux historiques le ticpolonga-serpents, les cobras à capuchon, et leur roi et slayer, l'affreuse hamadryad. Un bea

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. The book of a naturalist [microform]. Sciences naturelles; Natural history; Animal behavior; Animaux. THE SERPENT IN LITERATURE 189 West; and the constricting anacondas, with the greatest of them all, the giant Camudi, " mother of the waters " ; also the bull snake and the black snake, and that brilliant deadly harlequin, the coral snake. These all are in the New World, and I should then go to the Old in quest of blue sea- snakes and wonderful viridescent tree-snakes, and many historic serpents—the ticpolonga, the hooded cobras, and their king and slayer, the awful hamadryad. A beautiful dream all this, like that of the poor little pale-faced quill-driver at his desk, summing up colimins of figures, who falls to think- ing what his life would be with ten thousand a year. All the thorny and stony and sandy wilder- ness, the dark Amazonian and Arawhimi forests, the mighty rivers to be ascended three thousand miles from the sea to their source, the great moun- tain-chains to be passed, Alps and Andes, and Himalayas and the Mountains of the Moon, the entire globe to be explored in quest of serpents, from the hot tropical jungles and malarious marshes to the desolate windy roof of the world—all would have to be sought in the British Museum and one or two other dim stuffy libraries, where a man sits in a chair all day and all the year round with a pile of books before him. Alas I in such conditions, without the necessary precious personal knowledge so much desired, " The Book of the Serpent" would never be written. So I said and repeated, yet still went on with the l!' "' i i i.i't m •l. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922. London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton

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