THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE . 
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eagerly traveling onward with outstretched necks, and another set return¬ 
ing, after having drunk their fill. 
When the tortoise arrives at the spring, quite regardless of any spectator, 
he buries his head in the water above his eyes, and greedily swallows great 
mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say that 
each animal stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and 
then returns to the lower country; but they differed respecting the frequency 
of these visits. Some tortoises live on islands where the only water they 
obtain is that which falls as rain, and the inhabitants of the Galapagos Islands, 
when overcome with thirst, are in the habit of killing a tortoise and drinking 
the water contained in its interior. 
ELEPHANT TORTOISE. BRAZILIAN TORTOISE. 
CAROLINA BOX TORTOISE. ELEGANT TORTOISE. 
The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night 
and day, and arrive at their journey’s end much sooner than would be expected. 
The inhabitants, from observing marked individuals, consider that they travel 
a distance of about eight miles in two or three days. One large tortoise 
walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is three hundred and 
sixty yards in the hour, or four miles a day,—allowing a little time for it to 
eat on the road. During the breeding-season, when the male and female are 
together, the male utters a hoarse roar or bellowing, which, it is said, can 
be heard at a distance of more than a hundred yards. The female never uses 
