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SAVAGE SUDAN 



Not far from this point (about sF North latitude) 

 I saw (in 1913) a crocodile bigger than any that appear 

 even in dreams. The reptile lay sound asleep above 

 a i o- foot bank, head-on to the river, and our ship swept 

 past within a few yards of its snout ; but no time was 

 given to seize a rifle ere the vision was lost to view among 

 deep grass. In my diary the breadth of that beast is 

 recorded to an inch, with an estimate of length ; but 

 I will not abuse credulity by giving measurements not 

 verified on the tape-line. Still, the brute appeared to 

 bulk almost as broad as a hippopotamus. 



"TAKING THE MORNING SUN." WOOD-IBIS. 

 Hell's Gate, March 8th, 1919. 



