of an Orchid Hunter, 



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certain to kill. Our clay's sport ended with two males 

 and one female, all of which the natives managed 

 to drag- to the station and skin, only utilising the 

 skin of the under-side of the animal. One of them 

 measured seventeen feet and the other fifteen feet — 

 fairly good specimens, but not very large. Next day 



AFTER THE ALLIGATOR HUNT. 



I set about o^ettino; together the natives for the canoe, 

 and providing a stock of dried fish, salt beef, cassava 

 root, bananas, and some coffee, together with cooking 

 utensils, fishing-nets, guns, and ammunition. It is 

 also necessary to construct an awning over the canoe, 

 to somewhat break the glare of an overpowering sun. 



The following clay, after much delay, I mustered 

 my company of six men, and we started up the swift- 

 running, muddy stream, not forgetting to take with us 



