The nearest thing to it in size is the condor, I suppose." "I've seen some whopping big condors up in the Andes," said Percival, "but twelve feet from tip to tip was what the natives called a full-grown specimen.

What do you make of these birds, Flattner ?" "After seeing an iguana eighteen feet long, I'm ready to believe anything.

A protracted and an enforced spell of sobriety is the only thing that keeps me from diagnosing my own case as delirium tremens.
There's one thing sure.

Birds as big as these, and iguanas as huge as the three we've seen,--to say nothing of the enormous flying fish Morris Shine claims to have seen,--take me back to the Dark Ages.

I daresay we're seeing the tag end of the giants.