[165] Harris’s Voyages, vol. i. p. 360.
[166] Ibid., vol. i. p. 392.
[167] Encyclopædia of Arts and Sciences, first American edition, Philadelphia, 1798.
[168] See Voyage to the East Indies, by Francis Leguat; London, 1708. Leguat hardly makes the positive affirmation stated in the text. In describing Batavia he says there is another sort of serpents which are at least fifty feet long.
[169] Broderip, Leaves from the Note Book of a Naturalist, p. 357.
[170] Australasia, p. 273.
[171] Quedah; London, 1857.
[172] Perak and the Malays, p. 77.
[173] Figuier, Reptiles and Birds, p. 51.
[174] La Chine Illustré, d’Athase Keichere, chap. x. p. 272. Amsterdam, CIↄ ICↄ LXX.