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Identifier: travelssurprisin00forrrich (find matches)
Title: The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen;
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Forrester, A. H
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Publisher: New York, James Miller
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ventured to raise my head and lookround, when, to my unspeakable joy, I perceivedthe lion had, by the eagerness with wliich he sprungat me, jumped forward, as I fell, into the crocodilesmouth, which, as before observed, was wide open :the head of the one stuck in the throat of the other,and they were struggling to extricate themselves.1 fortunately recollected my couteau de chasse,which was by my side; with this instrument Isevered the lions bead at one blow, and tbe bodyfell at my feet. I then with the but-end of myfowling-piece rammed the head further into thethroat of the crocodile, and destroyed him by suifo-cation, for he could neither gorge nor eject it. Soon after I had thus gained a complete victoryover my two powerful adversaries, my companionarrived in search of me; for finding I did not fol-low him into the wood, he returned, apprehendingI had lost my way, or met with some accident. After mutual congratulations, we measured thecrocodile, which was just forty feet in length.
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BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 19 As soon as we had related this extraordinary ad-venture to the governor, he sent a wagon and ser-vants, who brought home the two carcasses. Thelions skin was properly preserved, with its hair on ;after which it was made into tobacco-pouches, andpresented by me, upon our return to Holland, to theburgomasters, wdio, in return, requested my accept-ance of a thousand ducats. The skin of the crocodile was stuffed in the usualmanner, and makes a capital article in their publicmuseum at Amsterdam, where the exhibitor relatesthe whole story to each spectator, with such addi-tions as he thinks proper: some of his variationsare rather extravagant; one of them is, that thelion jumped quite through the crocodile, and wasmaking his escape at the back-door, when, as soonas his head appeared. Monsieur the Great Baron (ashe is pleased to call me) cut it off, and three feet ofthe crocodiles tail along with it; nay, so little at-tention has this fellow to the truth, that he some-ti

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