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Familiar as he had now become with the ostrich-necked beasts, he could not help associating them with Barnum's Circus and boyhood memories.
The husband heard of the affair; on their way he confiscated the two magnificent beasts which were being sent to us, and substituted these horrible animals."
In a short time the two unfortunate beasts, who had not eaten anything since the morning, made such a noise in raising and letting fall the knocker that the procurator ordered his errand boy to go and inquire in the neighborhood to whom this horse and mule belonged.
We had neither savages nor wild beasts to fear, I supposed.
At that moment our hunter returned, who had been seeing his horses provided for; that is to say, he had economically let them loose in the fields, where the poor beasts had to content themselves with the scanty moss they could pull off the rocks and a few meagre sea weeds, and the next day they would not fail to come of themselves and resume the labours of the previous day.
But my uncle, who wanted no recruiting, would not hear of it, and the next morning we had to bestride our beasts again.
But we enjoyed absolute safety and utter seclusion; no savages or wild beasts infested these silent depths.
"These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.
But what could a ball do against the scaly armour with which these enormous beasts were clad?
The two beasts are fast locked together; I cannot distinguish the one from the other.
No human being may with safety dare the anger of these monstrous beasts."
In all probability, and such was also Herbert's opinion, some had been left by formidable wild beasts which doubtless would give them some trouble; but nowhere did they observe the mark of an axe on the trees, nor the ashes of a fire, nor the impression of a human foot.
"Perhaps these beasts will not let us pass by willingly," said Pencroft.
Cyrus Harding advised them to be very careful, as the forest probably enclosed many dangerous beasts.
As soon as he could get a regular weapon, that is to say, one of the guns which Pencroft begged for, Gideon Spilett resolved to make desperate war against the ferocious beasts, and exterminate them from the island.
During this excursion they saw several wild boars, which however, did not offer to attack the little band, and it appeared as if they would not meet with any dangerous beasts; when, in a thick part of the wood, the reporter thought he saw, some paces from him, among the lower branches of a tree, an animal which he took for a bear, and which he very tranquilly began to draw.
Supper was prepared, a good fire blazed before the hut, the roast turned, and at eight o'clock, while one of the settlers watched to keep up the fire, in case any wild beasts should prowl in the neighborhood, the others slept soundly.
These beasts are not St.
Pencroft had no need to ask if these beasts were eatable.
Herbert did not hesitate to affirm that some animal of the feline species had passed there, which justified the engineer's opinion that dangerous beasts existed in Lincoln Island.
"I thought those beasts were only found in hot countries?"
"If, which may be doubted," said he, "the island is inhabited by wild beasts, we must think how to fight with and exterminate them.
"Well!" said Neb, "these beasts can turn themselves over, then?''
As it was probable that they would have to cut a path through the grass, shrubs, and creepers, they marched axe in hand, and with guns also ready, wisely taking warning from the cries of the wild beasts heard in the night.
"Our guns are only loaded with small shot, and beasts which can roar as loud as that would care no more for it than for grains of salt!"
"It will be enough to light a fire at the entrance of the cavern," said the reporter, "and no wild beasts will dare to cross the threshold."
The noise was enough to terrify even the boldest of wild beasts.
It was not the engineer who had invented this way of causing loud explosions, for, according to Marco Polo, the Tartars have employed it for many centuries to drive away from their encampments the formidable wild beasts of Central Asia.
"That," observed Pencroft, "will enable us to establish our poultry-yard under better conditions, since we need have no fear of visits from foxes nor the attacks of other beasts."
The yet unknown portion of Lincoln Island was that of the wood-covered Serpentine Peninsula, which sheltered the wild beasts, from which Gideon Spilett was so anxious to clear their domain.
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