| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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When the Spaniards first saw this reptile in the New World, they called it el lagarto (the lizard). Sir Walter Raleigh called these creatures lagartos, and Ben Jonson alligartas. | 1 |
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“To the present day the Europeans in Ceylon apply the term alligator to what are in reality crocodiles.”—J. E. Tennent: Ceylon (vol. I. part 2, chap. iii. p. 186. |
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