Word: rhynodontypicus
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...Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster...
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