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BLACK KIVEE. 
people tugging at the hook in his throat, that 
would make his chivalry a more desperate adventure 
than David Brown’s, for his beast’s efforts to get 
forward only more effectually set him fast where he 
was.” 
The last narrative is of a more tragic character, and 
bears out the statements of Mr. Water ton as to the 
ferocity of these powerful reptiles. The scene of the 
incident was Black River in St. Elizabeth’s, where 
Crocodiles abound. 
\^th July, 1849. — On the eastern bank of the 
river, just above the bridge, and right within a quay 
and jutting cranehouse attached to a long line of 
stores, a Crocodile, some twelve months ago, snatched 
off from the beach a young girl thirteen or fourteen 
years of age, who was washing a towel at the river, in 
company with an elder companion, at nightfall. " She 
had been warned that it was dangerous to stand at all 
within the water after dark, for Alligators, as these 
Crocodiles of ours are erroneously called, would be 
then prowling, and fatal casualties had occurred. 
Just as the little braggart boasted that she heeded no 
such danger, a scream for help, and a cry, ‘ Lord, 
have mercy upon me ! Alligator has caught me ! ’ 
apprised her companion, intent on her own washing, 
that the girl was carried off. She was instantly 
snatched under water and drowned. The body was 
found some days after half-devoured, and two Croco- 
diles, one nine feet long and the other seventeen, 
were hunted down, and taken with portions of the 
flesh undigested within them. The bowels had been 
eaten away ; — the lower limbs torn off ; half of one 
thigh only remaining. The body had been carried 
