210 IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA CHAP, xvi 



the exhausted men and animals rushed down eagerly 

 to drink their fill. One of the donkeys, more 

 venturesome than the rest, went in too far and 

 thereby came to an untimely end, for as he was greed- 

 ily drinking, a great crocodile suddenly rose to the 

 surface, seized him and dragged him under and that 

 was the last we saw of him. 



