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which I saw while we were on the river ; but the 

 brutes were evidently accustomed to prey on the 

 game when coming to drink, and were danger- 

 ous in consequence. This one, when cut open, 

 was found to be full of meat which the negroes 

 identified as impala, and Abdu said the 

 stench was insupportable. I was not at the 

 operation. 



On the day that we spent at the swamp one 

 of the porters was attacked and mauled by a 

 crocodile. We were encamped at the place 

 where the river enters the swamp. The river at 

 this point is comparatively narrow, and the water 

 is shallow, much of the water having apparently 

 gone underground. In the morning I forded 

 the river and hunted the country on the right 

 bank in the vicinity of the swamp. The weather 

 was hot, and I had tried to ride the mule across ; 

 but the water was fairly deep under the right 

 bank, and the bank was steep, and I had been 

 compelled to dismount in the water and send 

 the mule back. I hunted until n a.m. without 

 success, having seen a good bush-buck, but not, 

 so far as I remember, any other game. I then 

 returned to camp, and, after fording the river, 

 had some breakfast and sat in my camp-chair 

 under an acacia-tree on the river-bank and went 

 to sleep. The river at this time was full of 

 negroes who were bathing and splashing and 

 enjoying themselves. All but two of the men 

 had, as I was subsequently informed, left the 

 water, when a crocodile seized one of them by 

 the hand and wrist and dragged him from the 

 shallows into the deeper water under the right 



