Several times we got within a few fathoms of it, and the Canadian hovered in readiness to strike; but then the dugong would steal away with a sudden dive, and it proved impossible to overtake the beast.
I heard its teeth grind on sheet iron, and the dugong disappeared, taking our harpoon along with it.
This dugong that Ned Land was preparing to attack was of colossal dimensions, easily exceeding seven meters in length.
Arriving within twenty feet of the skiff, the dugong stopped, sharply sniffing the air with its huge nostrils, pierced not at the tip of its muzzle but on its topside.
These incisors of the male dugong develop sometimes into tusks of considerable size--an inferior kind of ivory in the commerce of the Pacific Ocean.
The manati frequents the coasts of the Atlantic and the dugongthose of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
The dugong is a near relation of the manati, which frequents the tropical rivers and estuaries of West Africa, the West Indies, and South America.
In the former group are the Dugong and the Manatee.
The Portuguese and Spaniards give the Manatee a name signifying "Woman-fish," and the Dutch call the Dugong the "Little Bearded Man.
The Rhytina was probably intermediate between the Dugong and the Manatee, judging from the casts of its brain-cavity.
The Dugong (Halicore) extends along the Red Sea coasts, the shores of India, and the adjacent islands, and goes as far as the northern and eastern coasts of Australia.
The dugong came within twenty feet of the boat, stopped, sniffed the air briskly with its large nostrils (not pierced at the extremity, but in the upper part of its muzzle).
It required tackle of enormous strength to hoist the dugong on to the platform.
Several times it approached within some few yards, and the Canadian was ready to strike, but the dugong made off with a sudden plunge, and it was impossible to reach it.
This dugong which Ned Land was preparing to attack was of colossal dimensions; it was more than seven yards long.
For my part, I was only vexed to see the dugong escape all our attacks.
I heard its teeth grind on the iron plate, and the dugong disappeared, carrying the harpoon with him.
Suddenly a hissing noise was heard, and the dugong disappeared.
But here the cord was not more than ten fathoms long, and the extremity was attached to a small barrel which, by floating, was to show the course the dugong took under the water.
The Australian dugong is a larger species, attaining sometimes a length of 15 ft.
A full-grown dugong yields from 10 to 12 gallons of oil, and this forms in cold weather a thick mass, and requires to be melted before a fire previous to being used.
The flesh of the Australian dugong is easy of digestion, the muscular fibre when fresh resembling beef, and when salted having the flavour of bacon.
The female produces a single young one at a birth, and is remarkable for the great affection it shows for its offspring, so that when the young dugong is caught there is no difficulty in capturing the mother.
Notwithstanding the known differences existing between the phytophagous manatee-dugong group and the true whales, the parasites of this remarkable order of mammals (Sirenia) will be most conveniently noticed in this place.
In the Dugong and Rhytina there is a bicipital groove and the tuberosities are distinct, but in the Manatee there is no bicipital groove, and the tuberosities coalesce.
In neither Manatee nor Dugongis there any trace of an acetabulum but one can be made out in Halitherium.
In the Dugong it consists on each side of two slender bones, one of which represents the ilium and the other the ischium and pubis; the two bones are placed end to end and are commonly fused together.
He wished to penetrate the mystery of that submarine combat, and to ascertain what monster could have given the dugong so strange a wound.
The engineer and the reporter soon reached the little beach on which the dugong had been stranded.
Elsewhere I have spoken of my penchant fordugong hunting.
The only part of the dugong I preserved was the belly, which I cut up into strips and dried.
The sport which I myself took up was dugong hunting; for I ought to have mentioned that I brought a harpoon with me in the boat, and this most useful article attracted as much attention as anything I had.
When we had captured a dugong the blacks would come rushing into the sea to meet us and drag our craft ashore, delighted at the prospect of a great feast.
Feeling certain it was a dugong feeding on the well-known "grass," I rose and hurled my harpoon at it with all the force I could muster.
In the manatee it is rounded, in the dugong forked like that of a whale, in the rytina crescent-shaped.
I believe the dugong to be more especially the animal referred to by AElian as the semi-human whale, and that which has led to this group having been supposed by southern voyagers to be aquatic human beings.
Unfortunately both the dugong and the manatee are being hunted to extinction.
I may as well say that the dugong is a large fish found in these waters, from ten to twelve feet in length, of the whale species.
Mr Hooker told me that the female dugong is remarkable for the affection which she has for her young, of which she produces only one at a time.
If the young dugong is speared, she will never leave it, but is sure to be taken also.
However, the look of the dugong is not attractive.
As to the dugong he admits its resemblance to the mermaid, but repudiates the idea of its having given rise to the fable, by being mistaken for one.
The molar teeth of the Dugong have no roots, but present merely a flat surface bordered with enamel; moreover, they are fewer than in the Manatee, and the Dugong has rudimentary incisors.
Although the organization of the Dugong in its general features resembles that of the Manatee, there are important differences whereby they are clearly distinguishable.
In connection with the dugong (Halicore dugong), which is caught in the Gulf of Manaar, Dr.
They regard the tears of the ikandugong ('Dugong fish') as a powerful love-charm.
The presence of large glands in connection with the eye afforded some justification for the Malay's belief that the Dugong weeps when captured.
Some of the Queensland aborigines believe that if the bones or skulls of dugong were not put away in a heap or otherwise preserved, no more dugong would be caught (W.
The dugong is found on the east coast of Africa, and also on the coasts of Mauritius, Ceylon, the islands of the Indian Archipelago, and Western Australia.
A full-grown dugongis generally from seven to eight feet long, and measures about six feet round the body.
The Australian dugong is said to attain a length of fourteen feet.
Tennent has embellished his book with a very taking portrait of the mermaid on the Dugong hypothesis; shewing two females, each holding a baby [is it right to say merbaby?
Tis true the Manatee and the Dugong are rather mer-swine than mer-maids; but there is something in the bluff round head which may remind a startled observer of the human form divine.
When the female Dugong is nursing her offspring the position assumed is almost identical with that of a human mother.
The Dugong (Halicore Dugong) is a very similar animal, inhabiting the eastern seas.
In the Dugong there are two small bones on each side.
The skull of the Dugong is distinguished by the stout premaxillary bones, which bear a tusk in the male.
There is a flattened tail, which in the Dugong and Rhytina is precisely like that of a Whale.
Like most nations dwelling near the sea, the Malays have their mermaids, of which the dugong is the probable origin.
Similarly, the Dugong (Malay duyong) is asserted by some Malays to have sprung from the remains of a pig, which Muhammad himself dined off before he pronounced pork to be the accursed thing.
The tears of thedugong are believed to be an exceedingly potent love-charm.
Again, the Dugong and Manatee are dermally alike, yet extremely different as regards the structure and number of their teeth.
A species of dugong (Halicore hemprichii) is the animal that has been selected as the Badger of the Scriptures.
About Cape York and Endeavour Strait, the dugong is most frequently seen during the rainy season, at which time it is said by the natives to bring forth its young.
Another favourite article of food is the dugong (Halicore australis) of which a few are killed every year.
Some poles projecting above the others two to four feet had painted jaws of the dugong and large conch shells (Fusus proboscidiferus) fixed to the top, and numerous other dugong bones and shells were scattered along the front.
This is the favourite mode of cooking turtle and dugongthroughout Torres Strait, and on the east coast of the mainland I have seen similar fireplaces as far south as Sandy Cape.
The latter country possesses an organised dugong fishery, which bids fair to exterminate this harmless animal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dugong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
