They embarked, and reached the island.
Usually so abounding in game, the isle seemed barren.
Captain d'Horbourg consigned the captain of dromedaries to the infernal regions every five minutes.
Suddenly he stopped short, his eyes fixed and his gun arrested in his hand.
"General!" he cried to my father, who was about twenty-five paces from him.
"Well, what's the matter?"
"A snake!"
"What! a snake?"
"Yes, and such a size! It is thicker than my arm."
"Where is it?"