58 REPTILES AND BIRDS. 
and strength. “It attacks,” he says, “those it meets, and over- 
powers them with such force, that if it once coils itself round their 
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necks, it strangles and kills them, unless it bursts itself by the 
violence of its own efforts.” The same author states that he has 
seen serpents as thick as a man’s thigh, which had been taken when 
young by Indians, and tamed. That this Boa attains an immense 
