Note 104 — XIII.

The size attained by the alligator or cayman in the Laguna de Bay borders on the incredible. Baron Von Hügel, in his work already referred to, tells of a French settler in Jalla-Jalla (pronounce Halla-Halla), who assured him that he had once killed an alligator, whose head alone weighed 250 lbs., while the body was 10 feet in circumference! It lay buried in the sluice at the mouth of a river, and it proved so difficult to get it brought to land and cut up, that only the head was severed by way of trophy, and brought home to his house.