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THE CROCODILE 
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case of small animals, such as fawns which have 
been captured while drinking from the river’s bank, 
or dogs caught while swimming, but large animals 
are dragged beneath, and held below the surface 
until drowned ; they are then dragged away to some 
favourite hiding-place and devoured at leisure. 
The male is difficult to distinguish from the 
female, as the penis and testicles are concealed 
inside, within an aperture that would be accepted 
as the female parts. Unlike the snakes, which are 
double, the crocodile has a single penis. The male 
produces four glands of musk, two of which are upon 
either side, beneath the jaws, and two upon either 
side of the groin. These are highly prized by the 
Arabs in the Soudan, where crocodile-hunting is ' 
pursued as a profession, and the four glands of an 
average-sized specimen are worth 30s. ; those of a 
very large male would be valued in proportion. 
The Soudanese women string the musk-glands upon 
a necklace, together with other beads; when dried 
they are about the size of a small nutmeg. I have 
frequently inquired of the natives throughout India, 
but they are entirely ignorant of the existence of 
musk-glands in the crocodile. The scent is remark¬ 
ably strong, and I have frequently been attracted 
by the odour when, in a vessel passing down the 
White Nile, we had been forewarned of the basking- 
place upon the bank, before we had come in sight of 
the reptile. It is usually considered by the natives 
that the female is attracted to the spot by the musky 
exudation from the male. Although the female 
