Show tho java iso creature of the jungles of java is more feared than the terrible python A hunter tells of his experiences with one of these huge snakes gunning one day near tho river in tho interior of the island he says 1 I watched a number of wild hogs coming to the water to drink suddenly the head of a snake rose above tho grass and a hog squealed A python had seized a full grown one easily three feet high at the shoulder and thrown two coils around the body under the tremendous pressure the hog seemed to lengthen and when the snake uncoiled I 1 saw only a strip of meat nothing distinguishable but the head I 1 shot the snake it was 12 feet long and over 7 inches through and yet its coils had crushed the bones of its prey like chips there is no doubt that hidden away in vast swamps of the interior are many anacondas of enormous size parties have been made up to hunt them but the climate drives them lack chicago record |