46 Recollections of Adventures 



which the crocodiles appear to watch, and although 

 natives, when crossing, go in line, the u croc" will rush 

 and take one occasionally. I have shot many of these 

 loathsome reptiles on the sand banks of this beautiful 

 river, but no matter where you hit them, they 

 generally manage to get into the water to die. 



Along the banks of the Zambesi the natives 

 make stockades into the water to protect the women 

 while filling their water jars, but the wily " croc " 

 sometimes waylays them in the reeds, and attacks 

 them from the land side. When watering oxen, 

 care must be taken not to let them go near steep 

 banks and deep water, as a crocodile can pull the 

 largest ox in, by seizing him by the nose, and then 

 drowning him. Many dogs get taken by them in 

 the bush veld rivers. 



