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I know how to sail over the water without oars." " We certainly might leave the country ; but there is another difficulty. The dark season is coming, and we should never be able to find our way. Besides, the sea is full of monsters, and you and I will perish." " At any rate, let us try. I have my 8epet-ram. n " We could never find our way." " Only tell me," said I, " where it lies, and I will go by the stars." "The trouble is," said she, "that even if we did .suc- ceed in reaching my land, I sh...ould be sent back again ; for I was sent here as a sacred hostage, and I have been here four seasons." 108 A Strange Manuscript But in the midst of this conversation a sound arrested our attention — a heavy, puffing, snorting sound, as of some living thing. Hastily I started up, rifle in hand, and looked ; and as I looked I felt my nerves thrill with horror. There, close by the shore, I saw a vast form — a living thing — full sixty feet in length. It had a body like that of an elephant, the head of a crocodile, and enormous glaring eyes.
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