CHAPTER XXV

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TORTOISES AND TURTLES.

The Galapagos--The Elephantine Tortoise--The Marsh-Tortoises-- Mantega--River-Tortoises--Marine-Turtles--On the Brazilian Coast--Their Numerous Enemies--The Island of Ascension-- Turtle-Catching at the Bahama and Keeling Islands--Turtle caught by means of the Sucking-Fish--The Green Turtle--The Hawksbill Turtle--Turtle Scaling in the Feejee Islands--Barbarous mode of selling Turtle-flesh in Ceylon--The Coriaceous Turtle--Its awful Shrieks 321

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