Big Game at Sea 



in the bushes near by patiently awaiting his coming 

 down, after the fashion of a bull. The animal had 

 darted at him suddenly, in bounds covering a sur- 

 prising distance, and humping its back as described." 



The crocodile has a loud and resonant voice, like 

 that of a bull, that is especially unbearable during the 

 breeding season. The females utter a cry like the 

 yelping of a dog, and are very solicitous for and 

 careful of their young, that are much esteemed as 

 articles of diet by the males. The eggs are deposited 

 in rough nests, and are hatched out by the sun. The 

 mother watches the nest zealously, and when the 

 young appear, leads them away to some secluded 

 spot, where, for weeks, she feeds them on half- 

 digested food, after the manner of birds. 



The natives sometimes have the temerity to catch 

 crocodiles single-handed, and one colored man in a 

 small town was famous for his exploits. One was 

 that he had mounted a crocodile and rode it by catch- 

 ing it by its fore-flippers, so that it could do nothing 

 but push itself ahead and lunge its muzzle into the 

 sand. Waterton, the English naturalist, distin- 

 guished himself by riding a big crocodile up the beach 

 in the same way. 



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