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Titel

Anecdotes of crocodiles

Jahr

1853

Ort

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nachweis

in: Arthur’s Home Magazine 2:1 (August 1853), S. 139.

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: III.62
Dateiname: 1819-Baron_Humboldts_Personal_Heft1-32-neu

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Spaltenanzahl:	2
Zeichenanzahl:	1662

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ANECDOTES OF CROCODILES.

The Indians told us, that at San Fernando,scarcely a year passes without several persons,particularly women who fetch water from theriver, being drowned by these carnivorous rep-tiles. They related to us the history of a younggirl of Uritucu, who, by singular intrepidity andpresence of mind, saved herself from the jaws ofa crocodile. 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 havingbitten off the lower part of her left arm. Thegirl, notwithstanding the enormous quantity ofblood she lost, reached the shore, swimming withthe hand that still remained to her. In thosedesert countries, where man is ever wrestlingwith nature, discourse daily turns on the bestmeans that may be employed to escape from atiger, a boa, or a crocodile; every one prepareshimself in some sort for the dangers that mayawait him. “I knew,” said the young girl ofUritucu coolly, “that the cayman lets go hishold if you push your fingers into his eyes.”Long after my return to Europe, I learned that,in the interior of Africa, the negroes know andpractise the same means of defence. Who doesnot recollect, with lively interest, Isaac, the guideof the unfortunate Mungo Park, who was seizedtwice by a crocodile, and twice escaped from thejaws of the monster, having succeeded in thrustinghis fingers into the creature’s eyes while underwater? The African Isaac and the young Indiangirl owed their safety to the same presence ofmind, and the same combination of ideas.—Humboldt’s Personal Narrative.

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