On the very tips of their heads were certain
square-looking boxes, which, at first sight, I thought might have been
intended to answer as turbans, but I soon discovered that they were
excessively heavy and solid, and I therefore concluded they were
contrivances designed, by their great weight, to keep the heads of the
animals steady and safe upon their shoulders. Around the necks of
the creatures were fastened black collars, (badges of servitude, no
doubt,) such as we keep on our dogs, only much wider and infinitely
stiffer, so that it was quite impossible for these poor victims to
move their heads in any direction without moving the body at the
same time; and thus they were doomed to perpetual contemplation of
their noses- a view puggish and snubby in a wonderful, if not
positively in an awful degree.
"'When the monster had nearly reached the shore where we stood, it
suddenly pushed out one of its eyes to a great extent, and emitted
from it a terrible flash of fire, accompanied by a dense cloud of
smoke, and a noise that I can compare to nothing but thunder.
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