THE GANGETIC CKOCODILE. 57 



made the most determined resistance of any, and bawled aloud 

 more than a dozen times while struggling with her assailants. It 

 has been asserted that crocodiles are voiceless, but this is certainly 

 not the case with Gavialu? Gangeticus. Nor is it true of the Orinoco 

 ci'ocodile {Crocodilus inter medium), as I know by a personal en- 

 counter with an old male nearly 12 feet in length, who turned 

 upon me with a deep guttural snarl like a dog as I attempted to 

 seize him by the taiL 



