cayman's

It was the first time I was ever on a cayman's back.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

In memory of these departed ones, they keep their little idols -- some of stone, wood, bone, ivory, or a cayman's teeth; others of gold.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

The back of the cayman may be said to be almost impenetrable to a musket - ball, but his sides are not near so strong, and are easily pierced with an arrow; indeed, were they as strong as the back and the belly, there would be no part of the cayman's body soft and elastic enough to admit of expansion after taking in a supply of food.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

He told me afterwards he thought he should have dropped down dead with fright, for he was firmly persuaded if I had caught him I should have bundled him into the cayman's jaws.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

Now it appeared clear to me that, if I went down upon one knee and held the mast in the same position as the soldier holds his bayonet when rushing to the charge, I could force it down the cayman's throat should he come open-mouthed at me.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

In fact, the Indian meant it as the cayman's dinner-bell.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

At last I got an Indian with his bow and arrow: he stood up in the canoe with his bow ready bent, and as we drifted past the place he sent his arrow into the cayman's eye, and killed it dead.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

The people now dragged us above forty yards on the sand: it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823