Cane field with laborers and carabaos on the estate where was captured the twenty- 

 four-foot regal python, the "Ular Sawa" of the natives 



A PYTHON FROM THE PHILIPPINES 



By Mary Cynih'ui Diekirson 



A 



N authentic story touching a twenty-four-foot python's capacity 

 for swalloM'ing- prey comes from the Phihppines. Laborers found 

 the snake on an estate near Iloilo, Panay, when on their way through 



PholOKraph oT wild boar swallowod by I'liilippiiu^ rct^al python. It was estimated to 

 weigh 125 pounds. New York Zoological Park autiioritics assort that judging from the size 

 of bones found in the stomachs of newly received pythons, a twonty-four-foot regal python 

 could swallow a l)oar of l.'iO pounds 

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