Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Giant Tortoises. [ARTICLE]

Giant Tortoises.

There used to be a giant species oi tortoise in Mauritius. Van Neck, the discoverer of the dodo, found some there which were so large that six men could be seated in a single shell. Another authority states that 2,000 or 3,000 of them were sometime* seen in one drove