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I visited Mugger Pir on May 27, 1913, and found El 
Sheikh Mutka Glamali in charge of the place. He is pro- 
bably a son or nephew of the Mujdwir, Miyan Mutka, that 
Burton mentions. 
The oasis where Haji Mangho lived is surrounded by 
desert hills and stoney valleys with a scattered bush vege- 
tation. The desert sand appears to be encroaching on the 
cultivated portion of this oasis. 
The enclosure in which the crocodiles are now kept is an 
irregular pentagon about seventy paces in circumference ; in 
it is a tank of water and some trees. It is surrounded by a 
high wall. 
Inside this enclosure I saw twenty-four adult Marsh Cro- 
codiles, or Muggers, Crocodilus palustris^ whose length I 
estimated to be from about 6 feet (1*82 metres) to about 
9 feet (2*74 metres), and also three young crocodiles, of 
the same species, each about 18 inches (0*457 metre) in length. 
Some of the adults had very battered jaws and irregular 
teeth. 
The sheikh told me that there are seventy to eighty young 
crocodiles in the tank : this may or may not be so. 
The adults apparently lay their eggs in a sandy corner of 
the enclosure. 
Two goats were killed to provide the crocodiles with a 
meal, and Sheikh Mutka Glamali and I got over the wall into 
the enclosure and stood at the edge of the pool while he 
called the reptiles. A few took no notice at all of his voice, 
but the majority hurried to us, crawling over each other in 
the shallow water in their eagerness to catch the pieces of 
meat thrown to them. There appeared to be no method in 
the feeding. It was no orderly meal but a wild scramble, 
crocodiles snapping, fighting, and rolling about with much 
splashing of dirty water. 
An incident which helped one to realize the great strength 
of a crocodile’s jaws was an animal, not more than seven or 
eight feet in length, seizing the severed head of a goat and 
while holding it high above the water crushing it to pieces, 
with a horrid sound of breaking bones, as easily as a man 
might break a hen’s egg between his hands. 
