“I say, chap, that native has trapped us quite the boa!”

Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle et des Phenomenes de la Nature. F. E. Guerin, 1833.

Calabar Python

This snake resembles a very long slow-worm (which is really a lizard). Also known as a “burrowing boa”. 

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, vol. XXVI. 1858.