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scalie, which also can be taken with fly or bait, 
and the silver fish ; also the baba or cat fish, the 
culper or burrowing perch, and the mud fish. 
The baba or cat fish and the mud fish are not 
interesting. On account of the formation of its 
mouth, the mud fish often gets foul hooked. 
The tiger fish, is, I believe, found in both the 
Olifant’s river and the Crocodile river (Transvaal), 
in the Zambesi, and in some of the rivers running 
into Lake Mweru. 
Crocodiles do not occur in the Cape, Orange, 
Free State, and Natal provinces. Where they exist 
in the Transvaal the rivers (such as the Crocodile) 
are well known. Ifareader should fish in any river 
where there are crocodiles, he should be careful ; 
he must keep a good distance away from the 
edge of the water—the Union Castle guide book 
says at least three feet—and he must not run any 
risk of a sudden attack from a crocodile or of a 
blow from its tail. The advisability of taking 
precaution against snake-bites is referred to in 
the next chapter. Leggings are useful in this 
respect, 
