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What he saw caused him to tremble, and he was unable to speak for a time. There, walking before them, was a being with ears and face like a dog, but without a chin. From the lower jaw there hung a flesh-like bag, shaped like the pouch of a pelican, and leading into the stomach. The ribs did not join in the centre to form a chest with one cavity, but were arranged so as to make two compartments. The compartment on the left side contained the lungs, and the one on the right side held the heart and its vessels, leaving the throat like a wide sack between the two, so that when it held water or food it looked like a tube. This was the dreaded gigantic Cheeroonear, of whom they had heard much, but whom they had never seen. He stood eight feet high. His arms reached below his knees to his ankles. When he stretched or opened his fingers he could touch the ground. He could pick up objects from the ground without stooping.

Legend of australian aborigines. From W.R.Smith's book (1441: p.253)