“So were the Komodo dragons the origin of the Chinese dragon myths?” “Well, nobody really knows, of course. At least I don’t. But it certainly seems like a possibility. It’s a large creature with scales, it’s a man-eater, and though it doesn’t actually breathe fire, it does have the worst breath of any creature known to man. But there’s something else you should know about the island as well.” “What?” “Have another beer first.” I did. “There are,” said Mark, “more poisonous snakes per square metre of ground on Komodo than on any equivalent area on earth.”
