Word: tapirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
...beard. Plow nicely it ran down from his white hair past his big ears and around his chin! He was like a cleaned-up Santa Claus. And his big mustache was hanging like a curtain below his fleshy hooked nose. That nose was like the snout of an amiable tapir...
...trekking-menage sat down to dinner. Such succulent meats! What were they? Before the white men lay crackly tidbits of wild tapir (pig). The coppery Indian guides gorged on chunks of monkey carcasses, on the crisped torsos of giant lizards...
Crackly tidbits of wild tapir...
Incidentally, immigration certificates were not ready in time for this July 1; so absolutely no immigrants came. The Cleveland of the United American Line brought the nearest thing of the kind, "several thousand birds, a tapir, a blue-faced mandrill, other monkeys, some squirrels and three makis . . . funny-looking animals which are neither raccoons nor monkeys and which make sounds like a turkey...