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animals can be destroyed by the above-described method, 
I gave the people permission to drive, with the restriction 
that the same village should not do so more often than twice 
a month. But judging by the skill of the net-layers, the 
wildness of the faa, and the fact that these little buck 
appeared to know all the ropes in the game, I suspected that 
the natives had in fact not waited for permission either from 
the German or British Administrations, but had been driving 
all the time on the sly. 
ON CROCODILES 
By C. W. Hobley 
Discussions are sometimes heard in B.E.A. as to the size 
attained by the crocodiles which abound in the various lakes 
and rivers. 
The largest authenticated specimens which have come to 
my notice are the following : — 
1. Crocodile shot by the Duke of Mecklenburg at Mwanza 
on Lake Victoria, in 1905. It was seen by a Uganda railway 
officer, and it measured 21 feet 6 inches. 
2. Crocodile shot by Captain Riddick at Namasagali on 
Lake Chioga-, in 1916, and stated to have measured 26 feet. 
Some very large specimens are found in the pools on the 
Nile below the Murchison Falls. 
The largest I have shot myself was 18 feet 6 inches long, 
and this specimen was killed in the Lower Sondo on Miriu 
River in Nyakach. The crocodiles in Lake Baringo rarely 
exceed 9 feet. They are believed to be harmless as regards 
man ; and, judging by the way natives wade about in the 
lake fishing, it would appear to be correct. 
The crocodiles in the Sabaki River, as far as my observa- 
tions go, do not often exceed 12 feet in length. 
The Tana River contains some large crocodiles ; but I have 
never seen any whose length and bulk equalled those of the 
