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Photo from B. F. West 
DYAK CHIEF MONANG, OF THE REJANG RIVER, BORNEO, WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS 
FOLLOWERS 
Next morning the trappers search for 
the missing traps, and seldom fail to find 
the coils of floating rotan, or cane, on 
the surface of some deep pool at no great 
distance from the place where they were 
set. A firm but gentle pull soon brings 
the crocodile to the surface, and if he be 
a big one he is brought ashore, though 
smaller specimens are put directly into 
the boat and made fast there. 
Sometimes the cotton holding the bar 
to the line fails to snap. In that case the 
crocodile, becoming suspicious of the 
long line attached to what he has swal- 
lowed, manages to disgorge the bait and 
unopened hook in the jungle, where it is 
sometimes found. But should the cotton 
snap and the bar fix itself in the animal’s 
inside nothing can save the brute. 
The formidable teeth of the crocodile 
are not able to bite through the rope at- 
tached to the bait, because the baru fibers 
of which the rope is made get between 
his pointed teeth, and this bark rope 
holds, no matter how much the fibers get 
separated. 
Professional crocodile catchers are 
supposed to possess some wonderful 
