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A STRANGE BATTLE. 



were those of blind fury, and the useless dangling forelimbs interfered fatally 

 with anything like successful fighting. 



"By gracious ! he's got him ! " exclaimed Bob Marshall, stepping from behind 

 the tree in his excitement. 



"What do you mean?" asked Jack, hardly less agitated. 



" I mean the crocodile has got the gorilla." 



"How do you make that out? " 





HEAD OF THE CHIMPANZEE. 



"Didn't you see him fall on the other side of him? The crocodile has him 

 under his body and is hammering the life out of him?" 



"No no no not so," said Gyp, as he and Hargo ran forward with the 

 others, for he had seen what escaped their eyes. 



Dashing as close to the floundering reptile as was safe, Bob and Jack looked for 

 the bruised gorilla weakly struggling under the threshing body; but he was not 

 visible. 



" He must have him down in the mud and water out of sight," remarked the 

 puzzled lad. 



At that instant came the frightful "kh ah! kh ah!" from the other side f 



