otter

• Or was Netty the name of the gal I gave you the scientific name because this creature has no plain English name, though the natives here call it the mampalon_," added Louis That's what we call it; but I forgot the name," said Achang He is one of the otter family; and Mr. Hornaday, whose book I hope you will all read when you return to the ship, thought it might be called the otter-cat. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• He had paid a good price for the otter--more than he would have paid under ordinary circumstances. —  Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North
• The otter is asleep. —  Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
• In a few days fifteen hundred beaver and sea-otter had been obtained in trade, sixty-nine sea-otter--each of which was worth at that time one hundred dollars in modern money--for a handful of old nails To these deep-sea wanderers of Cook's crews, the harbor was as a fairy-land. —  Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
• The new fur was the sea-otter, as peculiar to the Pacific as the seal and destined to lead the Cossacks on a century's wild hunt from Alaska to California. —  Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

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