Digitalphilologie

Titel

Anecdote of a Crocodile

Jahr

1853

Ort

Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York

Nachweis

in: Littell’s Living Age 1/37:471 (28. Mai 1853), S. 576.

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: III.62
Dateiname: 1819-Baron_Humboldts_Personal_Heft1-30-neu

Statistiken

Seitenanzahl:	1
Spaltenanzahl:	2
Zeichenanzahl:	1682

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	Baron Humboldt’s Last Volume. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent. Vol. 4. London, 1819 (New York City, New York, 1819, Englisch)
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Anecdote of a Crocodile.

The Indians toldus, that at San Fernando scarcely a year passeswithout two or three grown-up persons, particu-larly women who fetch water from the river,being drowned by these carnivorous reptiles.They related to us the history of a young girl ofUritucu, who, by singular intrepidity and pres-ence of mind, saved herself from the jaws of acrocodile. When she felt herself seized, shesought the eyes of the animal, and plunged herfingers into them with such violence, that thepain forced the crocodile to let her go, after hav-ing bitten off the lower part of her left arm.The girl, notwithstanding the enormous quantityof blood she lost, reached the shore, swimmingwith the hand that still remained to her. Inthose desert countries, where man is everwrestling with nature, discourse daily turnson the best means that may be employed toescape from a tiger, a boa, or a crocodile; everyone prepares himself in some sort for the dangersthat may await him. “I knew,” said the younggirl of Uritucu coolly, “that the cayman lets gohis hold if you push your fingers into his eyes.”Long after my return to Europe, I learned thatin the interior of Africa the negroes know andpractise the same means of defence. Who doesnot recollect with lively interest, Isaac, theguide of the unfortunate Mungo Park, who wasseized twice by a crocodile, and twice escapedfrom the jaws of the monster, having succeededin thrusting his fingers into the creature’s eyeswhile under water? The African Isaac and theyoung American girl owed their safety to thesame presence of mind, and the same combina-tion of ideas.— Humboldt’s Personal Nar-rative. |Spaltenumbruch|

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