Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h.ppopotamusesand the crocodiles live in mutual respect and peace. Once ma whde acrocodile will try to steal a baby hippo, and then a fight takes place v.h.ehthe river folk remember for many moons. Crocodiles are treacherous. They love to lurk near fords or placeswhere the women come to wash. They sneak up in the sha low water andseize their v.ctims. In parts of the N,le, near Kh.unoun,, hardly a day passesvithout some poor native being carried off by a crocodde. Jh-.-are . -stances on record where a crocodile has charged a canoe, upset rt, and thenattacked the rowers as they struggled in the water. Sir Samuel Baker mentions a case where a back-water of the Ntle hadbeen damned off to make a safe and shallow bathmg place for the people ofthe village. Somehow a croeod.le got in. One day awful shrieks wereheard coming from the pond, and the men, rushing -■ P-^-^V ha woman had been carried off The crocodtle could not get out, so theassembled villagers leisurely shot the beast to death.
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A FIGHT BETWEEN CROCODILEa

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