Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 465
and slowly the arms are contracted untilthe prey is brought within reach of the sharp,parrot-like jaws, when it is deliberately eaten up. Some of these cuttle-fishes are of vast size. Theyare abundant in the Eastern Mediterranean, on thecoast of British Columbia, on the Pacific coast ofAsia, on the… … THE CROCODILE. known as the devil-fish, in allusion to its frightful fishes, baking the flesh in the ground. They go appearance and evil disposition. It has a shapeless in canoes and hunt for them, spearing them with pouch of a body, spotted, rough and wrinkled, a long handled harpoon when…
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