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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
were shooting and driving sea-cows, which showed 
good heads past my hiding-place, and they could 
not imagine why I did not shoot, but in the excite¬ 
ment of their own hunting forgot where they had 
left me, and poor Monies said they hallooed in vain; 
but he had noticed three or four of the largest 
crocodiles swimming backwards and forwards in one 
place, and close into the island, and on pulling in 
found me fast asleep within fifteen yards of these 
pleasant companions, who, no doubt, would soon 
have made a meal of me. All the sympathy my 
unenviable and dangerous position excited was 
being soundly rated for going asleep and not bag¬ 
ging a couple of sea-cows ; but I felt too grateful 
for being rescued to be angry in my turn. 
Whilst on the subject of crocodiles, I will relate an 
