372 TiMEHRl. 



in length, eleven of them had disappeared in the morn- 

 ing ; and as there was no possible outlet by which they 

 might have escaped, it had to be concluded that they 

 had been consumed by their comrades, the more 

 especially as the suspiciously swollen body of one Boa 

 constridor gave ample evidence of its voracity. 



