Looking quickly round, he beheld the head and the glittering eyes of another anaconda, apparently as large as the dead one, ready to dart upon him,--at least so he fancied; but he did not wait to give it a chance.

He fled instantly, and sprang towards the boat, which he nearly upset as he leaped into it, and pushed out into the stream.

On reaching the middle of the river they looked back, but the anaconda was gone.
Soon after this they came to a long sandbank, where the old trader said they should find as many turtles' eggs as they wished for, although to Barney and Martin there seemed to be nothing on the bank at all.

The fresh-water turtle of the Amazon, of which there are various species, is one of the most useful of reptiles.

Its flesh supplies abundance of good food; and the eggs, besides being eaten, afford an excellent oil.