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sand, but the men returned with over two hundred 

 eggs, the means of discovering them being to pierce 

 the sand at intervals with a stout stick to find the 

 cavity containing the eggs. The turtle comes out of 

 the river during the night and scratches a deep hole 



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FINDING TURTLES' EGGS. 



in the sand ; in these holes the eggs are deposited 

 all in one night, and not, as is generally supposed, 

 in several nights. I have read accounts of more than 

 a hundred eggs being laid by one turtle ; but I 

 am not inclined to believe the story, as the oldest 

 native told me he had never found more than three 



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