Melville's Enchanted Isles
Such was the wild nightmare begot by my first impression of the Encantadas tortoise. But next evening, strange to say, I sat down with my shipmates, and made a merry repast from tortoise steaks, and tortoise stews; and supper over, out knife, and helped convert the three mighty concave shells into three fanciful soup-tureens, and polished the three flat yellowish calipees into three gorgeous salvers. * Note: No wonder the fate of such marvelous creatures as Lonesome George and Fernanda.:( Fernanda: The Enigma Of Fernanda - A Lone Survivor In Galápagos | Galápagos Conservancy https://share.google/lwdiSy6JGN2E1DvQG Lonesome George: Lonesome George | Galápagos Conservancy https://share.google/V8IpzFbcJgwlFsBUV