"Matamata" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gray monkey, and he was high up in the branches of a tall matamata tree, where he deemed himself safe from the many creatures laboring along the ground below. Wherefore he chattered impudently down at them and, as the tall Indian guide halted, showed his teeth ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
... we had found was a matamata (Chelys matamata). It is found plentifully in Demerara, where its flesh is much esteemed. What we took to be a helmet, consisted of two membraneous prolongations of the skin, which projected out on either side from its broad and flattened head. The back was covered with a shield, with three distinct ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston |
