"Tamanoir" Quotes from Famous Books
... accompanied by the doctor's dog, Jumbo, who was almost as curious-looking as was his master—a perfect nondescript; but the doctor boasted that he had not his equal, was afraid of neither quadruped nor biped, and would face a jaguar, a bear, or a tamanoir (the large ant-eater), while he would stand to his point till he died of starvation, provided the bird chose to stay and be pointed at. We were ... — The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston |