. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . strong-smelling glands. In the autumn great numbers ofthese little creatures are found dead, without apparent injury, on roadsand footpaths in the country—probably starved. Some old superstitions still linger around the shrew, which is, orwas till very recently, credited with causing cattle to fall lame if itran over their backs, while its bite mad
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . strong-smelling glands. In the autumn great numbers ofthese little creatures are found dead, without apparent injury, on roadsand footpaths in the country—probably starved. Some old superstitions still linger around the shrew, which is, orwas till very recently, credited with causing cattle to fall lame if itran over their backs, while its bite made them swell at the heart anddie. The only cure was to stroke the part affected or bitten with atwig from a shrew-ash—that is, an ash-tree, into which a hole hadbeen bored with an auger, and a shrew plugged up alive in the hole. CHAPTER XXVII Crocodiles and Snakes NEXT succeeding in the order of nature come the Reptiles, a verylarge and important group of animals indeed, of wliich mem-bers are found in almost every ]:)art of the , it is a curious fact that, although we all know a reptilewhen we see it, and could in no case mistake it for a manimrd or abird, it is yet very dilTicull fo* us to write a description of these animrds. A FULL MEAL (266) AND SNAKES 267 which shall apply to all alike. \\c have already seen what a wonder-ful dilTercnce there is hetween such nianmials as the hat and the lion,the monkey and the whale, or the elephant and the mouse; but evenbetween creatures so very unlike one another as these, there is still agreat resemblance in many important ways. They all, for instance, \ A
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