Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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Famous Egyptian Crocodile

LATT KILENER (61) ing undressed, was about to take a glori- sprang back instinctively. This proved ous dive, when his attention was attracted his salvation, for the monster turned by an enormously long body which shot away with a disappointed look, and he into view, occupying the spot beneath the registered a vow never to be tempted surface which he was about to explore again by the treacherous calm of an by a header. It was a crocodile! He African river.

FAMOUS EGYPTIAN CROCODILE.
FAMOUS EGYPTIAN CROCODILE.

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