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seen as many as fifty in a clay, and some of them 

 twenty feet long. " The crocodile/' writes M. de Gol- 

 berry, in his "Fragments d'un Voyage en Afrique," 

 " is found in all the rivers which empty into the sea 

 between Cape Blanc and Cape cle Palmes, and even 

 in a great number of lagoons." Aclanson has seen 

 nearly two "hundred at one time on the great Senegal 

 river, floating together, which might easily be 

 mistaken for the trunks of trees borne along by the 

 stream. 



M. du Chaillu thus describes a scene presented to 

 him on the Anengue, a river of the Gaboon, at its 

 junction with the Ogabay. "We then entered the 

 Anengae. Its surface was covered with black mud 

 banks, on which swarmed an incredible number ^o 

 crocodiles. There were many hundreds of these dis- 

 gusting monsters sunning themselves or wallowing 

 in the mud, and diving to the bottom of the water in 

 S3arch of food. I have never seen a more hideous 

 spectacle. Some of them were at least twenty feet 

 long, and when they opened their horrible jaws, one 

 might have said that they could have swallowed our 

 little boats without any difficulty. " 



Livingstone has met with them in many of the 

 rivers of South Africa. The quantity of them living 

 on the Liambye is prodigious. " Every instant," ho 



