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scalie, which also can be taken with fly or bait, 

 and the silver fish ; also the baba or cat fish, the 

 culper or burrowing perch, and the mud fish. 

 The baba or cat fish and the mud fish are not 

 interesting. On account of the formation of its 

 mouth, the mud fish often gets foul hooked. 

 The tiger fish, is, I believe, found in both the 

 Olifant's river and the Crocodile river (Transvaal), 

 in the Zambesi, and in some of the rivers running 

 into Lake Mweru. 



Crocodiles do not occur in the Cape, Orange 

 Free State, and Natal provinces. Where they exist 

 in the Transvaal the rivers (such as the Crocodile) 

 are well known. If a reader should fish in any river 

 where there are crocodiles, he should be careful ; 

 he must keep a good distance away from the 

 edge of the water the Union Castle guide book 

 says at least three feet and he must not run any 

 risk of a sudden attack from a crocodile or of a 

 blow from its tail. The advisability of taking 

 precaution against snake-bites is referred to in 

 the next chapter. Leggings are useful in this 

 respect. 



